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The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers / Andrea Tone.

By: Publication details: New York : Basic Books, c2009.Description: xx, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780465086580 :
  • 0465086586 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RM333 .T66 2009
Contents:
Anxiety before the tranquilizer revolution -- The making of Miltown -- The fashionable pill -- Psychiatry in the medicine cabinet -- Arsenals of the anxious -- Corporate choreography and molecular play -- Suffering amid the silence -- Mother's little helpers -- Tranquilizers on trial.
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Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection RM 333 .T66 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Copy Type:01 - Books Available 601789

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-288) and index.

Anxiety before the tranquilizer revolution -- The making of Miltown -- The fashionable pill -- Psychiatry in the medicine cabinet -- Arsenals of the anxious -- Corporate choreography and molecular play -- Suffering amid the silence -- Mother's little helpers -- Tranquilizers on trial.

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