Before Prozac
Subtitle: the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry
By: Edward Shorter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195368741
Subjects: United States. -- Food and Drug Administration.; Affective disorders -- Chemotherapy -- United States -- History.; Psychotropic drugs -- United States -- History.; Psychopharmacology -- United States -- History.; Serotonin uptake inhibitors -- Therapeutic use -- History.; Psychotropic drugs industry -- United States -- History.; Pharmaceutical policy -- United States -- History.; Psychopharmacology -- history -- United States.; Drug Approval -- history -- United States.; Government Agencies -- history -- United States.; History, 20th Century -- United States.; Mood Disorders -- drug therapy -- United States.; Psychotropic Drugs -- history -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before psychopharmacology; title: The first drug set; title: Power play; title: Killer drugs!; title: Death sentences; title: "The plague of affective disorders"; title: Losing ground; title: What now?