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David Healy is an internationally respected psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist, and author. A professor of Psychiatry in Wales, Healy studied medicine in Dublin and at Cambridge University. He is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Based Medicine Limited and is the author of mostrar mais The Antidepressant Era and The Creation of Psychopharmacology. mostrar menos

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La medicina oggi è solo marketing. E ci peggiora la vita. Sarà poi vero? Leggiamo questo libro.
 
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AntonioGallo | outras 3 resenhas | Nov 2, 2017 |
Clearly written and never too dry. This does a great service to the subject as a history, and also to Healy's other subject, which is the brave new world we're entering via expansions of the DSM that pathologize human variation, as well as diagnosis by proxy, and drug trials that leave a lot to the imagination.
Fun fact for painters: Carbamazepine was one of a series of tricyclic molecules stemming from the iminodibenzyl dye, summer blue.
Chilling words: "Adolescence has been easy to deal with because until fairly recently it was all but standard to view adolescence as a time of semipsychosis, when suicidal ideation or erratic behaviour was common. But this period of turmoil was also seen as a necessary development phase that often laid the basis of later creative genius or other accomplishments. It is not clear what we might lose if marketing departments capture our views of adolescence."
If there's a Joyce among us, we're going to drug him.
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dmarsh451 | Apr 2, 2013 |
 
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vegetarian | outras 3 resenhas | Oct 10, 2012 |
An indictment of the pharmaceutical industry citing both historical and contemporary examples that also takes a broad look at the medical/industrial/academic complex. Includes suggestions for possible reform.
 
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zenosbooks | outras 3 resenhas | Sep 9, 2012 |

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12
Membros
305
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½ 3.4
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7
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52
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