Review of Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

摘要

Books exposing the misdeeds of the pharmaceutical industry are so common these days that pharma-bashing has become a genre unto itself. Especially in the realm of psychopharmacology, the pharmaceutical industry has given us plenty of grist for shocking exposes and scathing critiques. I call attention to this body of literature in order to say: Do not assume that Robert Whitaker's book, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, is just another anti-psychopharm diatribe.