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Whitaker, Robert.
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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.
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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.
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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
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