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Psychotropic drugs and popular culture : essays on medicine, mental health and the media / edited by Lawrence C. Rubin.
- Title
- Psychotropic drugs and popular culture : essays on medicine, mental health and the media / edited by Lawrence C. Rubin.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RM315 .P786 2006 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Rubin, Lawrence C., 1955-
- Description
- x, 217 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The authors in this compilation of essays contend that society has been transformed into an asylum without walls--a 'psychotropia.' With each new definition of a mental ailment a new cure is offered, increasing the number of inmates in this asylum and blurring the lines between mental health and mental illness"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The asylum / William Wingfield -- Hollywood Rx / Meredith Kneavel and Ann Kneavel -- Cheerful robots in cyberspace / Simon Gottschalk -- Advertising madness / Lawrence C. Rubin -- Psychotropics, it's what's for dinner / Phillip Vannini -- Rappers, ravers, and rock stars / Robert Keller -- From playground to pharmacy / Michael Brody -- False advertising / C. Richard King and Marcie L. Gilliland.
- ISBN
- 9780786425136 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 078642513X (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2006014346
- OCLC
- 68192500
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library