The Sedated Society : The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic
1st ed. 2017
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3319449109
ISBN-13
9783319449104
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 9th, 2017
Print length
318 Pages
Weight
448 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 21.30 x 2.00 cms
Ksh 10,800.00
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This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic?
This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside the emerging clinical and scientific data revealing their poor outcomes and the harms these medications often cause, their commercial success cannot be explained by their therapeutic efficacy.
Chapters from an interdisciplinary team of global experts in critical psychopharmacology rigorously examine how pharmaceutical sponsorship and marketing, diagnostic inflation, the manipulation and burying of negative clinical trials, lax medication regulation, and neoliberal public health policies have all been implicated in ever-rising psycho-pharmaceutical consumption. This volume will ignite a long-overdue public debate. It will be of interest to professionals in the field of mental health and researchers ranging from sociology of health, to medical anthropology and the political economy of health.
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