The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers - Brossura

Tone, Andrea

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ISBN 10: 046502520X ISBN 13: 9780465025206

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2012

Riassunto

Drugs for anxiety are a billion-dollar business in the United States. Yet in 1955, when the prescription tranquilizer Miltown became available, pharmaceutical executives worried that there was no market. In The Age of Anxiety , historian Andrea Tone provides a comprehensive account of the rise of America's prescription drug culture through the lens of our complicated relationship with tranquilizers.

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Recensione:

O magazine
A fascinating history of our dependence on downers . Thoughtful, timely, and evenhanded."

Kirkus
Readable, informative account of how cultural, economic and political forces have shaped the way Americans address anxiety . Untangles the variety of complex factors that have shaped Americans' increasing use of tranquilizers amid conflicting attitudes toward them.”

New York Post
Very accessible and well-researched.”

Minneapolis Star-Tribune
[A] lively and thoughtful history of tranquilizers . [Tone] is a diligent researcher, and she deftly covers the tangle of historical, medical, legal and cultural issues here without lapsing into jargon no easy feat with a subject like this.”

Newsweek
[A] smart and crisp history of American tranquilizer use.”

New England Journal of Medicine
A superb history that illustrates which cultural groups embraced tranquilizers, how these drugs were initially wildly popular but were subsequently rejected, and the rise of SSRIs as their replacements . Informative and intriguing.”

L'autore:

Andrea Tone is Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill University. She lives in Montreal.

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• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 046502520X
• ISBN 13: 9780465025206
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 322