Book ID: CBB013439988

Pill (2019)

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Bennett, Robert (Author)


Bloomsbury Academic


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 176
Language: English

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. “You are what you eat.” Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals-and especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well as our bodies. Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity not in T. S. Eliot's proverbial coffee spoons but in 1mg-, 5mg-, or 300mg-doses, Pill traces the uncanny presence of psychiatric pills through science, medicine, autobiography, television, cinema, literature, and popular music. Robert Bennett reveals modern psychopharmacology to be a brave new world in which human identities- thoughts, emotions, personalities, and selves themselves-are increasingly determined by the extraordinary powers of seemingly ordinary pills.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Review Dominique A Tobbell (2020) Review of "Pill". Social History of Medicine (pp. 1043-1045). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hawkins, Mike F.
Baumeister, Alan A.
José Eduardo Sant’Anna Porto
Molaro, Aurelio
Gershon, Ariel
Westmore, Ann
Concepts
Psychopharmacology
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychotropic drugs
Pharmacy
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Leipzig (Germany)
Argentina
France
Australia
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