Robert Whitaker
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Pub. Date
2010
Description
-- tripled Interwoven with Whitaker’s groundbreaking analysis of the merits of psychiatric medications are the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. As -- Anatomy of an Epidemic Praise for Anatomy of an Epidemic “The timing of Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic “Anatomy of an Epidemic “Lucid, pointed and important, Anatomy of an EpidemicGreg Critser, author of Generation Rx
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Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Tells the story of Isabel Grameson, an upper-class Peruvian woman who in 1741 married Jean Godin, a member of a team of French mapmakers exploring South America, focusing on her three-thousand-mile trek down the length of the Amazon to reach her husband after they were separated on opposite sides of the continent--victims of international politics.
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Based on exhaustive research culled from old patient medical records, historical accounts, and government documents, this haunting book raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, what it means to be "insane." and what we value most about the human mind.
"In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Medical journalist Robert Whitaker... traces the treatment of mental illness through the use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s, to the electroshock therapy of the 1950s, to what is perhaps his most damning revelation: drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed research to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were moore effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book...