The Age of Anxiety

A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

Andrea Tone (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2012
Basic Books (Verlag)
978-0-465-02520-6 (ISBN)

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The definitive history of America's tranquilizer culture--from the Miltown sensation in the 1950s to Valium in the 1960s and 1970s to Xanax in the twenty-first century.

Drugs for anxiety are a billion-dollar business in the United States. Yet in 1955, when the prescription tranquilizer Miltown became available, pharmaceutical executives worried that there was no market. In The Age of Anxiety , historian Andrea Tone provides a comprehensive account of the rise of America's prescription drug culture through the lens of our complicated relationship with tranquilizers.

Andrea Tone is Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill University. She lives in Montreal.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.1.2012
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 227 mm
Gewicht	414 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-465-02520-X / 046502520X
ISBN-13	978-0-465-02520-6 / 9780465025206
Zustand	Neuware