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The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture / Richard DeGrandpre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeGrandpre, Richard J.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug utilization--United States.
- Drug utilization.
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Drugs--Social aspects--United States.
- Drugs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Richard DeGrandpre, author of Ritalin Nation, targets the illogic underlying U.S. drug policy and Americans' limited understanding of what drugs are and how they work.
- Contents:
- Mama Coca
- Cult of the SSRI
- The emperor's new smokes
- The placebo text
- America's domestic drug affair
- War
- The drug reward
- Possessed by the stimulus
- Ideology.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022455
- 9781283022453
- 1283022451
- 9780822388197
- 0822388197
- OCLC:
- 262341485
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