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THE CREATION OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
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| By: |
David Healy |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£35.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674006194 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674006195 |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 March, 2002 |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
Traces the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. It argues that the discovery of chlorpromazine (also 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. |
| Synopsis: |
In this study, David Healy traces 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.However, 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 chemical treatment was developed for one purpose, and as long as some theoretical rationale could be found, doctors administered it to the insane patients in their care to see if it would help. Sometimes it did, dramatically. Why these treatments worked, Healy argues, was, and often still is, a mystery. Nonetheless, such discoveries made and unmade academic reputations and inspired intense politicking for the Nobel Prize.Once pharmaceutical companies recognized the commercial potential of antipsychotic medications, financial as well as clinical pressures drove the development of ever more aggressively marketed medications. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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