- Mental illness, Epidemiology, Prescribing, Psychotropic drugs
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades?
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and plot-driven.
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Robert Whitaker
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 404
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, Broadway Books, Crown Publishers
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9789865727451
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