TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herzberg,David
TI  - Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac
SN  - 9781421400990
AV  - RM315.H52 
U1  - 362.290973 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Psychotropic drugs-United States-History
KW  - Psychotropic drugs-Social aspects-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Medicine, Commerce, and Culture -- 1 Blockbuster Drugs in the Age of Anxiety -- 2 Listening to Miltown -- 3 Wonder Drugs and Drug Wars -- 4 The Valium Panic -- 5 Prozac and the Incorporation of the Brain -- Conclusion. Better Living through Chemistry? -- Appendix A. Medications Mentioned -- Appendix B. Prescriptions for Psychiatric Drugs, 1955-2005 -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X
N2  - With a barrage of "ask your doctor about" advertisements competing for attention with shocking news of drug company malfeasance, Happy Pills is an invaluable look at how the commercialization of medicine has transformed American culture since the end of World War II
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