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The Creation of Psychopharmacology
David Healy
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Description for The Creation of Psychopharmacology
Paperback. Healy follows "The Antidepressant Era" with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Once pharmaceutical companies recognized their commercial potential, financial as well as clinical pressures drove the development of ever more aggressively marketed medications. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: MMGW; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 530.
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 medicine as the discovery of penicillin, reminding readers of the worldwide prevalence of insanity within living memory.
But Healy tells not of the triumph of science but of a stream of fruitful accidents, of technological discovery leading neuroscientific research, of fierce professional competition and the backlash of the antipsychiatry movement of the 1960s. A ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674015999
SKU
V9780674015999
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99-50
About David Healy
David Healy is Reader in Psychological Medicine at North Wales Clinical School and a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology.
Reviews for The Creation of Psychopharmacology
David Healy is one of the founding historians of psychopharmacology, first with his three-volume series of interviews with the first generation of psychopharmacologists, and secondly with his brilliant book, The Antidepressant Era. Now Healy crowns these achievements with this breathtakingly original and important history of the antipsychotics, psychiatry's flagship drugs. In their short lifespan they have revolutionalized psychiatry, ... Read more