Bennett, Robert (Author)
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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Ariel Gershon;
Edward Shorter;
(2019)
How amytal changed psychopharmacy: off-label uses of sodium amytal (1920–40)
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Baumeister, Alan A.;
Hawkins, Mike F.;
(2004)
The Serotonin Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: A Historical Case Study on the Heuristic Value of Theory in Clinical Neuroscience
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Andrew Scull;
(2019)
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
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Baumeister, Alan A.;
Hawkins, Mike F.;
(2005)
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Historical Development of Modern Psychopharmacology
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Dann, Lynn Philip;
(2002)
Addiction and structures of knowledge
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Balz, Viola;
(2011)
Terra Incognita: An Historiographic Approach to the First Chlorpromazine Trials Using Patient Records of the Psychiatric University Clinic in Heidelberg
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Stein, Dan J.;
(2008)
Philosophy of Psychopharmacology: Smart Pills, Happy Pills, and Pepp Pills
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Hess, Volker;
(2007)
Psychochemicals crossing the wall. Die Einführung der Psychopharmaka in der DDR aus der Perspektive der neueren Arzneimittelgeschichte
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Herzberg, David;
(2009)
Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac
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Metzl, Jonathan Michel;
(2001)
The Freud of Prozac: Tracing psychotropic medications through American culture, 1955-2001
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Lakoff, Andrew;
(2005)
Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry
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Langlitza, Nicolas;
(2006)
Ceci n'est pas une psychose. Toward a Historical Epistemology of Model Psychoses
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Panchasi, Roxanne;
(1996)
Graphology and the science of individual identity in modern France
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Ian Hesketh;
(2019)
Technologies of the Scientific Self: John Tyndall and His Journal
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Steinberg, Holger;
(2005)
Leipziger psychiatriegeschichtliche Vorlesungen
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José Eduardo Sant’Anna Porto;
(2019)
Chlorpromazine: a remedy of its time
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Healy, David;
(2002)
The Creation of Psychopharmacology
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Dyck, Erika;
(2008)
Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus
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Westmore, Ann;
Moore, Greg de;
(2013)
The “Mad Major” and his Idiosyncratic War: Linking Military Medicine and Lithium Therapy for Psychosis
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Molaro, Aurelio;
(2020)
La ‘logica immanente’ della follia: Biochimica e fenomenologia in Roland Kuhn (1912-2005)
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