The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers / Andrea Tone.
Publication details: New York : Basic Books, c2009.Description: xx, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780465086580 (alk. paper)
- 0465086586 (alk. paper)
- 615/.7882 22
- 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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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.