The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers /
Tone, Andrea, 1964-
The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers / Andrea Tone. - New York : Basic Books, c2009. - xx, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780465086580 (alk. paper) 0465086586 (alk. paper)
2008032718
101479715 DNLM
Tranquilizing drugs--History.--United States
Antipsychotic drugs--History.--United States
Antipsychotic Agents--history--United States.
Anxiety Disorders--drug therapy--United States.
Pharmaceutical Preparations--history--United States.
RM333 / .T66 2009
615/.7882
The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers / Andrea Tone. - New York : Basic Books, c2009. - xx, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780465086580 (alk. paper) 0465086586 (alk. paper)
2008032718
101479715 DNLM
Tranquilizing drugs--History.--United States
Antipsychotic drugs--History.--United States
Antipsychotic Agents--history--United States.
Anxiety Disorders--drug therapy--United States.
Pharmaceutical Preparations--history--United States.
RM333 / .T66 2009
615/.7882