Antidepressant Era; Author: Healy, David; Hardback; Book

Author: Healy, David
Hardback; Book; Illustrations
352 pages
Published: October 1999
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039580

When we stop at the pharmacy to pick up our Prozac, are we simply buying a drug? Or are we buying into a disease as well? The first complete account of the phenomenon of antidepressants, this authoritative, highly readable book relates how depression, a disease only recently deemed too rare to merit study, has become one of the most common disorders of our day -- and a booming business to boot.New in paperback. An account of the phenomenon of antidepressants. The book chronicles the history of psychopharmacology and the current debate over drugs replacing psychotherapy, and explores the regulation of drug companies, what antidepressants reveal about the human brain and the sociology of drug marketing.