Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs
by Jonathan Metzl
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Jonathan Michel Metzl, a psychiatrist and women's studies scholar, shows that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Metzl provides a cultural history of psychiatric "wonder drugs" from the 1950's to the early twenty-first century. in tracing a lineage from Miltown to Valium to Prozac, he uncovers the surprising ways that Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles continue to shape understandings of depression and its treatment.Tags
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Jonathan M. Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of its Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. The author of several books and a prominent expert on gun violence and mental illness, he hails from Kansas City, Missouri, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, History
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- 616.8918 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Nervous Disorders: Autism, Anorexia, OCD Mental disorders: bi-polar/schizophrenia Therapy
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- RC341 .M593 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
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