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Happy pills in America : from Miltown to Prozac / David Herzberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herzberg, David L. (David Lowell), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotropic drugs--United States--History.
- Psychotropic drugs.
- Psychotropic drugs--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johns Hopkins University Press 2010
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Blockbuster drugs in the age of anxiety
- Listening to Miltown
- Wonder drugs and drug wars
- The Valium panic
- Prozac and the incorporation of the brain.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0099-5
- OCLC:
- 794701433
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