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Bennett, Robert, 1967-

Pill / Robert Bennett. - 1 online resource - Object lessons . - Object lessons. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thorazine (C17H19CLN2S) : the psychopharmacological revolution -- Valium (C16H13ClN2O) : the psychopharmacology of everyday life -- Lithium (Li2co3) : the psychopharmacological thriller -- Prozac (C17H18F3NO) : existential quagmires -- Adderall (C9H13N)2 H2SO4 + (C9H13N)2 H2SO4 + (C9H13N)2 6H10O8 + ((C9H13N) C4H7NO4 H2O) : psychopharmacology unbound.

"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "You are what you eat." Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals-and especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well as our bodies. Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity not in T.S. Eliot's proverbial coffee spoons but in 1mg-, 5mg-, or 300mg-doses, Pill traces the uncanny presence of psychiatric pills through science, medicine, autobiography, television, cinema, literature, and popular music. Robert Bennett reveals modern psychopharmacology to be a brave new world in which human identities- thoughts, emotions, personalities, and selves themselves-are increasingly determined by the extraordinary powers of seemingly ordinary pills. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic."--Bloomsbury publishing

ISBN: 9781501341953 1501341952

Source: 9781501341953 codeMantra

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB928162 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 019229017 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychotropic drugs.
Psychopharmacology.
Psychotropic Drugs
Psychopharmacology
Psychotropes.
Psychopharmacologie.
MEDICAL--Pharmacology.
Psychopharmacology
Psychotropic drugs

LC Class. No.: RM315

Dewey Class. No.: 615.7/8

National Library of Medicine Call No.: QV 77.2