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• Title:Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
  
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• Author/Creator:Whitaker, Robert.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Broadway Books, 2010.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM11.AA1 W578 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM11.AA1 W578 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Lost - 12-29-2023
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mental illness--United States.
  Psychotropic drugs--United States.
  Drugs--Prescribing--United States.
  Psychiatry--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Psychiatry--history--United States.
  
• Description:xi, 404 pages : ill ; 21 cm.
  
• Summary:Presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities and considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780307452429
  0307452425
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. One Epidemic
  1. Modern Plague
  2. Anecdotal Thoughts
  pt. Two Science of Psychiatric Drugs
  3. Roots of an Epidemic
  4. Psychiatry's Magic Bullets
  5. Hunt for Chemical Imbalances
  pt. Three Outcomes
  6. Paradox Revealed
  7. Benzo Trap
  8. Episodic Illness Turns Chronic
  9. Bipolar Boom
  10. Epidemic Explained
  11. Epidemic Spreads to Children
  12. Suffer the Children
  pt. Four Explication of a Delusion
  13. Rise of an Ideology
  14. Story That Was and Wasn't Told
  15. Tallying Up the Profits
  Fart five Solutions
  16. Blueprints for Reform.