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Healy, David
Edition
Revised ed.
Publication Date
15-09-2004
Country of Origin
USA, United States
Net Quantit/Number of Units
1
Dimensions LxWxH - Cms
6X1.2X9
ISBN-10
0674015991
ISBN-13
9780674015999
SKU
DADAX0674015991
Book Title
The Creation of Psychopharmacology
No of Pages
480
Release Title
The Creation of Psychopharmacology
ISBN
9780674015999
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
The Creation of Psychopharmacology
Item Height
229 mm
Author
David Healy
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Subject
Medicine, Psychology
Item Width
152 mm
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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David Healy follows his widely praised study, The Antidepressant Era, with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Healy argues that the discovery of chlorpromazine (more generally known as Thorazine) is as significant in the history of medicine as the discovery of penicillin, reminding readers of the worldwide prevalence of insanity within living memory. But Healy tells not of the triumph of science but of a stream of fruitful accidents, of technological discovery leading neuroscientific research, of fierce professional competition and the backlash of the antipsychiatry movement of the 1960s. A chemical treatment was developed for one purpose, and as long as some theoretical rationale could be found, doctors administered it to the insane patients in their care to see if it would help. Sometimes it did, dramatically. Why these treatments worked, Healy argues provocatively, was, and often still is, a mystery. Nonetheless, such discoveries made and unmade academic reputations and inspired intense politicking for the Nobel Prize. Once pharmaceutical companies recognized the commercial potential of antipsychotic medications, financial as well as clinical pressures drove the development of ever more aggressively marketed medications. With verve and immense learning, Healy tells a story with surprising implications in a book that will become the leading scholarly work on its compelling subject.

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Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674015999
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Publication Year
2004
Subject
Medicine, Psychology
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Creation of Psychopharmacology
Type
Textbook
Author
David Healy
Format
Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
152 mm

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United States
Title_Author
David Healy

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