The Age of Anxiety

Name: The Age of Anxiety
Brand: Basic Books
SKU: 9780465025206
Price: 18.99 GBP
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ISBN: 9780465025206

by Andrea Tone

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3rd January 2012

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Medicine / Medicine: General Issues

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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.