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.
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.