The Psychopharmacologists - Hardcover
This stimulating book consists of a collection of 27 interviews with some of the key researchers in the field of psychopharmacology, including senior clinicians, basic scientists and drug developers within the pharmaceutical industry. It follows a very successful first volume published in 1996.
These important and stimulating interviews will require the histories of antidepressants and antipsychotics to be rewritten. They provide a unique perspective on interactions between cultural, commercial and regulatory frameworks and on the emergence of clinical trials and their importance to psychiatry. Along with Volume 1, this title creates a new field - the History of Psychopharmacology, a field distinct from that of the History of Psychiatry or History of Neuroscience.
'The Psychopharmacologists 2' will offer illuminating reading for: all clinicians, laboratory and field scientists; anyone working in any branch of the pharmaceutical industry from marketing to medicinal chemistry; historians of medicine and science.
These interviews do more than shed light on the past - this is psychopharmacology as it happens now, told from the inside. By detailing paths of developments that have not been taken, 'The Psychopharmacologists 2' opens up vistas for possible future developments that will be of relevance to public policy makers and the public in general.
These important and stimulating interviews will require the histories of antidepressants and antipsychotics to be rewritten. They provide a unique perspective on interactions between cultural, commercial and regulatory frameworks and on the emergence of clinical trials and their importance to psychiatry. Along with Volume 1, this title creates a new field - the History of Psychopharmacology, a field distinct from that of the History of Psychiatry or History of Neuroscience.
'The Psychopharmacologists 2' will offer illuminating reading for: all clinicians, laboratory and field scientists; anyone working in any branch of the pharmaceutical industry from marketing to medicinal chemistry; historians of medicine and science.
These interviews do more than shed light on the past - this is psychopharmacology as it happens now, told from the inside. By detailing paths of developments that have not been taken, 'The Psychopharmacologists 2' opens up vistas for possible future developments that will be of relevance to public policy makers and the public in general.
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About the Author:
David Healy, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales, College of Medicine.
Review:
Despite an imposing length (over 600 pages), broad scope and difficult technical detail, Healy's perceptive and critical questioning makes this text particularly wothwhile. Healy has done an admirable job of guiding and capturing the recollections and reconstructions of this first generation of pyschopharmacologists.
Journal Of The History of Behavioural Sciences
Journal Of The History of Behavioural Sciences
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- PublisherHodder Education Publishers
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1860360106
- ISBN 13 9781860360107
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages672
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