[Paperback]" />Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease) [Paperback]
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- Reading level: Ages 18 and up
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (August 17, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1421403978
- ISBN-13: 978-1421403977
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5.5 x 0.8 x 8.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review:4.6 out of 5 stars style="margin-left:-3px">See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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If David Healy's intent is to present a cohesive, thorough, integrated and provocative account of the history of the concept of mania and the evolution of what is currently called bipolar disorder, he is tremendously successful.
(PsycCRITIQUES 2009)Healy reminds us that we need to ask ourselves what it means to be ill and what it means to be well.
(Garan Holcombe California Literary Review 2008)A learned and polemical volume in the series Biographies of Disease published by the Johns Hopkins University Press... Healy is an intellectual bomb-thrower, a most erudite and clever doctor with an anarchic streak that he cannot quite reconcile with disinterested historical inquiry. He is interesting precisely for the subtle detonations that he sets off in the reader’s mind, rattling the received ideas too comfortably ensconced there.
(Algis Valiunas New Atlantis 2009)A powerful political tract. As social history it provides the most detailed available account of the interactions of psychiatry and the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing.
(Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2009)Provides a probing and challenging commentary on the state of contemporary psychiatry.
(Allan Beveridge British Journal of Psychiatry 2009)David Healy is indeed an enfant terrible—and a very brave man. I doubt he is on Eli Lilly’s or Pfizer’s Christmas card list.
(Times Literary Supplement )Mania is a work that deserves a wide readership.
(Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences )Well-written and compelling... I encourage you to read this exceptional book.
(Tom Olson, PhD Nursing History Review 2010)The book is a scholarly one [and] Healy's wide knowledge of the facts of the history is impressive.
(Paul Skerritt Health and History 2009)[Healy's] work has enriched our historiographic discourse enormously and social historians of medicine can only greet that as good news.
(Eric J. Engstrom Social History of Medicine 2009)How did we come to apply such a serious diagnosis to vaguely depressed or irritable adults, to unruly children and to nursing home residents? Is it simply that psychiatric science has progressed and now allows us to detect more easily an illness that had previously been ignored or misunderstood? Healy has another, more cynical explanation: the never-ending expansion of the category of bipolar disorder benefits large pharmaceutical companies eager to sell medications marketed with the disorder in mind.
(Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen London Review of Books 2010)A distinct and powerful view of the history of psychiatry that arouses controversy in the best sense of the word. Healy's discussion of the role of drug companies is especially right on the mark.
(Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D., Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey )Well paced, judicious, and extremely well researched, Healy's powerful book deserves a wide readership in and far beyond psychiatry.
(Christopher Lane Common Knowledge 2012)Customer Reviews
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David Healy is a professor of psychiatry at Cardiff University; in clear, jargon free prose he writes the history of mental illness, how our concepts and treatments of mental disorders have changed. He believes that history is part of the scientific process because by examining our beliefs and how they have changed we challenge them; he ridicules those like Fukuyama who believe that history has come to an end since the underlying notion of the end of history as well as the public relations departments of the pharmaceutical companies is that our practices are perfect and need never change. As evidence of the contrary, Healy notes, among many examples, such contemporary barbarism as the "treatment" of a 4 year old and a 2 year old with psychotropic drugs that resulted in their deaths. Transnational corporations did not enter the mental illness market until after WWII. Among other things, WWII brought a paradigm shift in how disease was treated. Drugs such as antibiotics became the focus of all treatments, including mental illness. Chemical companies saw huge profits in drugs and spun off new drug companies which have become the most profitable corporate entities worldwide. As part of this history, much of the early focus on creating new drugs was the exploration of chemical dyes used in the chemical industry and to this day there are many drugs which resulted from that research. In order to maintain their profits, the drug companies aka "Big Pharm" have turned the science of mental health into junk. This is a partial list of how the pharmaceutical companies market their products: 1. They create associations for mental health care professionals and fund their publications; 2. The associations they fund not only serve to promote their products but to create consensus and guidelines to force doctors to use their costly patented products, rather than older generics, or face exposure to lawsuit regardless of whether or not the older products may be at least as effective as the new; 3. Not only do the pharmaceuticals fund existing publications, they help create new ones to promote drugs for new mental disorders; 4. The creation of new disorders is so rapid that a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins complained that eventually everyone would be designated as mentally ill and looked forward to a mental illness that would include fat, short men of Irish descent, such as himself; 5. In order to ensure a demand for their new drugs, the pharmaceuticals actively promote self help or confessional books by non professionals on the latest mental illness, including publicity hand outs to mainstream outlets such as Time magazine and the New York Times; 6. Not only do the pharmaceuticals fund clinical trials for FDA approval but they suppress clinical trials that do not support licensing of their drugs; 7. Pharmaceuticals ghostwrite publications signed by leading academics for publication in respected medical journals; 8. Pharmaceuticals have dropped using salesmen and women to promote their products and rely upon academics because the academics are cheaper and more effective with doctors; 9. Pharmaceuticals directly market to consumers and entice them to visit their websites and to use rating scales which lead the consumer to believe that he or she has the disorder requiring the use of their expensive, patented drug; and, 10. Pharmaceuticals have no interest in researching drugs that might alleviate major diseases such as AIDS in the poorer parts of the world; instead, they focus on lifestyle drugs such as Viagra for the relatively well to do. So what is the result of the junk science of mental illness? The astonishing fact is that unique among illnesses in the Western World, the life expectancy for patients with serious mental illness has declined. In some parts of the first world, rates of suicide for the seriously mental ill have increased ten fold.
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