Whitaker, Robert.

Contents: A modern plague -- Anecdotal thoughts -- The roots of an epidemic -- Psychiatry's magic bullets -- The hunt for chemical imbalances -- A paradox revealed -- The benzo trap -- An episodic illness turns chronic -- The bipolar boom -- An epidemic explained -- The epidemic spreads to children -- Suffer the children -- The rise of an ideology -- The story that was ... and wasn't told -- Tallying up...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind Whitaker

Whitaker, Robert.

Summary: Presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities and considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 WHI

Whitaker, Robert.

Contents: pt. 1. Original Bedlam (1750-1900). 1. Bedlam in medicine -- 2. Healing hand of kindness -- pt. 2. Darkest era (1900-1950). 3. Unfit to breed -- 4. Too much intelligence -- 5. Brain damage as miracle therapy -- pt. 3. Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s). 6. Modern-day alchemy -- 7. Patients' reality -- 8. Story we told ourselves -- 9. Shame of a nation -- 10. Nuremberg Code doesn't apply here -- pt. 4....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 WHI

Summary: Tom Sawyer enters a cave with Huck and Becky to save Muff Potter, witness to murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOM