Prozac on the couch : prescribing gender in the era of wonder drugs /
Jonathan Michel Metzl, a psychiatrist and women's studies scholar, shows that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Metzl provides a cultural history of psychiatric "wonder drugs" from the 1950's to the early twenty-first...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2003.
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Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Jonathan Michel Metzl, a psychiatrist and women's studies scholar, shows that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Metzl provides a cultural history of psychiatric "wonder drugs" from the 1950's to the early twenty-first century. in tracing a lineage from Miltown to Valium to Prozac, he uncovers the surprising ways that Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles continue to shape understandings of depression and its treatment |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780822386704 0822386704 |