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  • Shipwreck of the Singular

    Healthcare's Castaways

    by David Healy ...
    Life Expectancy in the West has been falling since 2015. Linked to this, the climate of healthcare has become toxic. This crisis, as urgent as global climate change, has its roots in the same factors that drive climate change.Shipwreck of the Singular looks at our changing environment through a healthcare lens rather than an economic one. One advantage to this is that each of us is better placed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pillaged

    Psychiatric Medications and Suicide Risk

    by Ronald W. Maris ...
    An examination of the efficacy and safety of psychiatric medications in light of how little is understood about how they workIt is estimated that forty-five to fifty percent of all Americans will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives. Increasingly, the treatment for these disorders is management with one or more psychiatric drugs, often prescribed by general practitioners. In ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Creation of Psychopharmacology

    by David Healy ...
    David Healy follows his widely praised study, The Antidepressant Era, with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Healy argues that the discovery of chlorpromazine (more generally known as Thorazine) is as significant in the history of medicine as the discovery of penicillin, reminding readers of the worldwide prevalence of insanity ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Pharmageddon

    by David Healy ...
    This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to three ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Psychopharmacologists

    Interviews by David Healey

    by David Healy ...
    The Psychopharmacologists. An interview-based book about the process of therapeutic innovation in clinical psychiatry. David Healy's method is to interview key individuals involved in the discovery and deployment of drugs that have proved useful to psychiatry, and to draw them together within a model of the mechanism and clinical discovery that he uses as an overall framework.These are historical ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Psychiatric Drugs Explained

    by David Healy ...
    This version is now out of print. An edition with e-book is available under ISBN 97880702041365.Psychiatric Drugs Explained contains a clear and comprehensive guide to the uses, benefits and impact of psychotropic drugs. It explains how people taking the drugs experience their side effects compared to the benefits they may bring. The fifth edition has been fully revised and updated to include the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Psychiatric Drugs Explained - E-Book

    Psychiatric Drugs Explained - E-Book

    by David Healy ...
    Psychiatric Drugs Explained offers a wealth of evidence-based information on psychiatric drugs in an easy-to-use format that can be quickly referenced in the clinical setting. Written by internationally recognised author Dr David Healy, the book provides a comprehensive review of drug effects, action and side-effects. There is an emphasis on the lived experience of patients, providing the reader ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Mania

    A Short History of Bipolar Disorder

    by David Healy ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
    This provocative history of bipolar disorder illuminates how perceptions of illness, if not the illnesses themselves, are mutable over time.Beginning with the origins of the concept of mania—and the term maniac—in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, renowned psychiatrist David Healy examines how concepts of mental afflictions evolved as scientific breakthroughs established connections between ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Psychopharmacologists 3

    by David Healy ...
    The Psychopharmacologists 3 completes a trio of interview-based books about the process of therapeutic innovation in clinical psychiatry. David Healy's method is to interview key individuals involved in the discovery and deployment of drugs that have proved useful to psychiatry, and to draw them together within a model of the mechanism and clinical discovery that he uses as an overall framework ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Let Them Eat Prozac

    The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression

    by David Healy ...
    A psychiatrist provides an insider account on the controversial use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)Prozac. Paxil. Zoloft. Turn on your television and you are likely to see a commercial for one of the many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on the market. We hear a lot about them, but do we really understand how these drugs work and what risks are involved for anyone ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    3 Stories - Femme Fatales

    A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

    by H P Lovecraft, F Marion Crawford, E F Benson ...
    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Healy ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 41 min

    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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    H. P. Lovecraft Volume 1

    by H. P. Lovecraft ...
    Narrated by David Healy ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 25 min

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American writers of fantasy and the supernatural. Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative child he began to invent what would in his adult life become a whole macabre fantastic world of ... Read more

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