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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Healy, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
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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