1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00095749

Titolo

Apuleio : Storia del testo ed interpretazioni / a cura di Giuseppina Magnaldi, Gian Franco Gianotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : Edizioni dell'Orso, 2000

ISBN

88-7694-445-1

Descrizione fisica

332 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

870

Soggetti

FILOLOGIA CLASSICA - Apuleio

APULEIO - Opere - Studi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910522990003321

Autore

Hengartner Michael P.

Titolo

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription : Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest / / by Michael P. Hengartner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030825874

9783030825867

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 pages)

Disciplina

615.78

616.8527061

Soggetti

Clinical psychology

Psychiatry

Social medicine

Medical anthropology

Psychology, Pathological

Public health

Clinical Psychology

Medical Sociology

Medical Anthropology

Psychopathology

Public Health



Antidepressius

Prescripció de medicaments

Medicina basada en l'evidència

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: How did I get here? -- 2. Antidepressants in clinical practice -- 3. Medico-cultural context -- 4. Flaws in antidepressant research -- 5. Conflicts of interest in psychiatry -- 6. Solutions for reform.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression. It outlines the steep increase in antidepressant prescription and critically examines the current scientific evidence on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants in depression. The book is not only concerned with the conflicting views as to whether antidepressants are useful or ineffective in various forms of depression, but also aims at detailing how flaws in the conduct and reporting of antidepressant trials have led to an overestimation of benefits and underestimation of harms. The transformation of the diagnostic concept of depression from a rare but serious disorder to an over-inclusive, highly prevalent but predominantly mild and self-limiting disorder is central to the books argument. It maintains that biological reductionism in psychiatry and pharmaceutical marketing reframed depression as a brain disorder, corroborating the overemphasis on drug treatment in both research and practice. Finally, the author goes on to explore how pharmaceutical companies have distorted the scientific literature on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants and how patient advocacy groups, leading academics, and medical organisations with pervasive financial ties to the industry helped to promote systematically biased benefit-harm evaluations, affecting public attitudes towards antidepressants as well as medical education, training, and practice. Michael P. Hengartner is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and four book chapters. He was an expert evaluator for the European Research Council and the World Health Organization and currently is a member of the Swiss School of Public Health, the German Society for Social Psychiatry,and the European Public Health Association.