prescribing gender in the era of wonder drugs
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Metzl, Jonathan Michel
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4611 - B
- Thesaurus
- psychiatrie, psychische stoornissen, therapieën, medicijnen, reclames, psychoanalyse, gender, rolgedrag, historisch, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Providing a cultural history of treatments for depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses through a look at the professional and popular reception of three 'wonder drugs' Miltown, Valium, and Prozac, Metzl explains the ways Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles have shaped understandings of these drugs.