The Creation of Psychopharmacology /
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 m...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2009]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Strangers in a Strange Land
- 2 The Doctoring of Madness before Chlorpromazine
- 3 Explorations in a New World
- 4 Psychiatry outside the Walls
- 5 Twisted Thoughts and Twisted Molecules
- 6 Positive and Negative
- 7 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- 8 Democracy
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index