03032nam 22006854a 450 991078230760332120230721033316.00-19-770572-30-19-045136-X1-281-82598-097866118259800-19-970933-5(CKB)1000000000553679(EBL)415113(OCoLC)476240107(SSID)ssj0000109718(PQKBManifestationID)11142810(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109718(PQKBWorkID)10059561(PQKB)10487269(Au-PeEL)EBL415113(CaPaEBR)ebr10254460(CaONFJC)MIL182598(MiAaPQ)EBC415113(EXLCZ)99100000000055367920080220d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBefore Prozac[electronic resource] the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry /Edward ShorterOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-536874-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Before psychopharmacology -- The first drug set -- Power play -- Killer drugs! -- Death sentences -- "The plague of affective disorders" -- Losing ground -- What now?Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is ""losing ground"" in the struggle to treat depression. Naturally, the book looks at such culprits as the pharmaceutical industry, which is not inclined to market drugs once the patent expires, leading to the endless introduction of new--but not necessarily better--drugs. But the heart of the book focuses on an unexpected villain: thAffective disordersChemotherapyUnited StatesHistoryPsychotropic drugsUnited StatesHistoryPsychopharmacologyUnited StatesHistorySerotonin uptake inhibitorsTherapeutic useHistoryPsychotropic drugs industryUnited StatesHistoryPharmaceutical policyUnited StatesHistoryAffective disordersChemotherapyHistory.Psychotropic drugsHistory.PsychopharmacologyHistory.Serotonin uptake inhibitorsTherapeutic useHistory.Psychotropic drugs industryHistory.Pharmaceutical policyHistory.616.85/27061Shorter Edward128248MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782307603321Before Prozac3686318UNINA