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Happy Pills in America : From Miltown to Prozac.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421400990
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Happy Pills in AmericaDDC classification:
  • 362.290973
LOC classification:
  • RM315.H52
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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