Edward Shorter

Before Prozac

The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this provocative volume, Shorter offers a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground" in the struggle to treat depression. 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: the FDA, the very agency charged with ensuring drug safety and effectiveness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780195368741
• ISBN-10: 0195368746
• Artikelnr.: 24423364

Autorenporträt

Edward Shorter is Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Before Psychopharmacology
3: The First Drug Set
4: Power Play
5: Killer Drugs!
6: Death Sentences
7: "This Plague of Affective Disorders"
8: Losing Ground
9: What Now?
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