Book ID: CBB000951092

Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (2009)

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Herzberg, David (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: x + 279 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Hussain, Fahmida (2010) Review of "Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac". Technology and Culture (p. 528). unapi

Review Higby, Gregory J. (2013) Review of "Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 327-329). unapi

Review Healy, David (2009) Review of "Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac". Social History of Medicine (p. 645). unapi

Review Dyck, Erika (2010) Review of "Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 258). unapi

Review Mold, Alex (2010) Review of "Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac". Medical History (p. 428). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Campbell, Nancy D.
Bita Moghaddam
Haslem, Lauren N.
Gershon, Ariel
Daemmrich, Arthur
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
Journals
Pharmacy in History
History of Psychiatry
Social Studies of Science
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Medical History
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Publishers
MIT Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Yale University Press
University of Michigan Press
University of Massachusetts Press
New York University Press
Concepts
Pharmacy
Narcotics and drugs
Psychopharmacology
Psychotropic drugs
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Psychiatry
People
Higby, Gregory J.
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Argentina
Germany
Australia
Asia
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Purdue University (Lafayette, Indiana)
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