Losing ground
Losing ground2008
About this book
Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground" in the struggle to treat depression.
Details
- First published
- 2008
- OL Work ID
- OL2409170W
Subjects
United StatesPsychotropic drugs industryUnited States. Food and Drug AdministrationDrug ApprovalSerotonin uptake inhibitorsPsychotropic DrugsMood DisordersGovernment AgenciesPharmaceutical policyAffective disordersChemotherapyTherapeutic useHistory, 20th CenturyPsychopharmacologyDrug therapyHistoryUnited states, food and drug administrationSerotonin