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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     More Content       More by this author     Whitaker, Robert.     Subjects     Mental illness -- United States.     Mental illness -- Social aspects.     Mentally ill -- United States.     Psychotropic drugs -- Prescribing -- United States.     Psychiatry -- United States.     Brain chemistry.     Manic-depressive illness -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Whitaker, Robert.       by title:      Anatomy of an epidem...       by call number:      COMPACT DISC 616.89 W578a     Search the Web     Whitaker, Robert.     Mental illness -- United States.     Mental illness -- Social aspects.     Mentally ill -- United States.     Psychotropic drugs -- Prescribing -- United States.     Psychiatry -- United States.     Brain chemistry.     Manic-depressive illness -- United States.       MARC Display

Anatomy of an epidemic [sound recording] : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker. by Whitaker, Robert. Brilliance Audio, p2010. Call #: COMPACT DISC 616.89 W578a Subjects Mental illness -- United States.   Mental illness -- Social aspects.   Mentally ill -- United States.   Psychotropic drugs -- Prescribing -- United States.   Psychiatry -- United States.   Brain chemistry.   Manic-depressive illness -- United States. Series Brilliance Audio on compact disc. ISBN:  9781455883417 Format:  [sound recording] : Edition:  Unabridged. Description:  12 compact discs (14:05 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm. Contents:  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. Summary:  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 disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nation's children. What is going on? Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through that question themselves Genre:  Adult books on CD. Other authors:  Brilliance Audio (Firm) Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction on CD COMPACT DISC 616.89 W578a Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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