Anatomy of an Epidemic

By Agnes F. Vandome and John McBrewster

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America is book by Robert Whitaker published in 2010 by Crown. Whitaker asks why the number of Americans who receive government disability for mental illness approximately doubled since 1987. He tries to answer that question and examines the long-term outcomes for the mentally ill in the U.S. Whitaker explains that the drugs given to people with schizophrenia and depression were developed during a period of growth for the pharmaceutical industry, following that industry's development of "magic bullets" that treat people with, for example, diabetes. The public wanted to believe in "wonder drugs." Unfortunately, the reasons the pharmaceutical companies gave for the drugs working (too much or too little dopamine or serotonin in the patient's brain) have not proved to be true.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6133854103
• ISBN13: 9786133854109
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"