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Anatomy of an epidemic

In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disabi...

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Glavni autor: Whitaker, Robert (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: New York : Crown Publishers, cop. 2010
Izdanje: 1st ed
Predmet:
Mental illness > United States.
Psychotropic drugs > United States.
Drugs > Prescribing > United States.
Psychiatry > United States.
Psychiatry > ethics > United States.
Psychiatry > history > United States.
Psychology, Pathological > drug therapy > United States.
Psychology, Pathological > epidemiology > United States.
Mental illness > drug therapy > United States.
Psychiatric epidemiology > United States.
mentalne bolesti
terapija ljekovima
psihijatrija
Sadržaj:
  • A modern plague
  • Anecdotal thoughts
  • The roots of an epidemic
  • Psychiatry's magic bullets
  • The hunt for chemical imbalances
  • A paradox revealed
  • The benzo trap
  • An episodic illness turns chronic
  • The bipolar boom
  • An epidemic explained
  • The epidemic spreads to children
  • Suffer the children
  • The rise of an ideology
  • The story that was ... and wasn't told
  • Tallying up the profits
  • Blueprints for reform.

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