The rise and fall of the age of psychopharmacology

• Verfasst von: Shorter, Edward [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The rise and fall of the age of psychopharmacology
• Verf.angabe: Edward Shorter (PHD, Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of the History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: [2021]
• Umfang: xii, 431 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-757443-0
• ISBN: 0-19-757443-2
• Schlagwörter: (s)Psychopharmakologie / (s)Psychopharmakon / (z)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: CZ 2000
• Sach-SW: Psychopharmacology
• Sach-SW: Psychotropic drugs
• Sach-SW: History
• K10plus-PPN: 1780856199

Abstract

In The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology, esteemed historian Edward Shorter proposes that the recent history of psychiatry is that of a failed scientific discipline of medicine. Medicine generally is about the story of progress, but psychiatry's story is that of failure in diagnosis, in therapeutics, and in the ability to deliver science-based care to suffering individuals