Before Prozac [[electronic resource] ] : the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry / / Edward Shorter

• Autore: Shorter Edward
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.85/27061
• Soggetto topico: Affective disorders - Chemotherapy - United States - History; Psychotropic drugs - United States - History; Psychopharmacology - United States - History; Serotonin uptake inhibitors - Therapeutic use - History; Psychotropic drugs industry - United States - History; Pharmaceutical policy - United States - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Before psychopharmacology -- The first drug set -- Power play -- Killer drugs! -- Death sentences -- "The plague of affective disorders" -- Losing ground -- What now?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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: th
• Titolo autorizzato: Before Prozac
• ISBN: 0-19-770572-3; 0-19-045136-X; 1-281-82598-0; 9786611825980; 0-19-970933-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782307603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II