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Edward Shorter

Before Prozac

The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry

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Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is losing ground in the struggle to treat depression.Naturally, the book looks at such culprits as the pharmaceutical industry, which is not inclined to market drugs once the patent expires, leading to the endless introduction of new--but not necessarily better--drugs. But the heart of the book focuses on an unexpected villain: the FDA, the very agency charged with ensuring drug safet… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-970933-5
  • EAN: 9780199709335
  • Produktnummer: 13963626
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'168 KB

Über den Autor


Edward Shorter is Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

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