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The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers / Andrea Tone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tone, Andrea, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tranquilizing drugs--United States--History.
- Tranquilizing drugs.
- Antipsychotic drugs--United States--History.
- Antipsychotic drugs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The definitive history of America's tranquilizer culture?from the Miltown sensation in the 1950s to Valium in the 1960s and 1970s to Xanax in the twenty-first century.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Preface ix; 1 Anxiety Before the Tranquilizer Revolution 1; 2 The Making of Miltown 27; 3 The Fashionable Pill 53; 4 Psychiatry in the Medicine Cabinet 69; 5 Arsenals of the Anxious 93; 6 Corporate Choreography and Molecular Play 117; 7 Suffering Amid the Silence 141; 8 Mother's Little Helpers 175; 9 Tranquilizers on Trial 203; Acknowledgments 233; Notes 237; Index 289
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-77484-7
- 9786613790965
- 0-7867-2747-0
- OCLC:
- 302287405
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