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

Catalog Data

Author:
Tone, Andrea 1964-  Search this
Physical description:
xx, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2009
C2009
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
Topic:
Tranquilizing drugs--History  Search this
Antipsychotic drugs--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_914963