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The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

AUTHOR Tone, Andrea
PUBLISHER Basic Books (01/01/2012)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
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Drugs for anxiety are a billion-dollar business in the United States. Yet in 1955, when the prescription tranquilizer Miltown became available, pharmaceutical executives worried that there was no market. In The Age of Anxiety, historian Andrea Tone provides a comprehensive account of the rise of America's prescription drug culture through the lens of our complicated relationship with tranquilizers.
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ISBN-13: 9780465025206
ISBN-10: 046502520X
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 320
Carton Quantity: 28
Product Dimensions: 5.90 x 0.70 x 8.90 inches
Weight: 0.95 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Medical | History
Medical | Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology
Medical | Psychopathology - Anxieties & Phobias
Grade Level: College Freshman and up
Dewey Decimal: 615.788
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Drugs for anxiety are a billion-dollar business in the United States. Yet in 1955, when the prescription tranquilizer Miltown became available, pharmaceutical executives worried that there was no market. In The Age of Anxiety, historian Andrea Tone provides a comprehensive account of the rise of America's prescription drug culture through the lens of our complicated relationship with tranquilizers.

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Author: Tone, Andrea
Andrea Tone is Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill University. She is the author, most recently, of "Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America".
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