Pill

ISBN-13: 9781501341946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

USA) Bennett Professor Robert (Montana State University

Opis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. “You are what you eat.” Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals—and especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well as our bodies. Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity not in T. S. Eliot’s proverbial coffee spoons but in 1mg-, 5mg-, or 300mg-doses, Pill traces the uncanny presence of psychiatric pills through science, medicine, autobiography, television, cinema, literature, and popular music. Robert Bennett reveals modern psychopharmacology to be a brave new world in which human identities— thoughts, emotions, personalities, and selves themselves—are increasingly determined by the extraordinary powers of seemingly ordinary pills. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Recenzje

Bennett is great . in showing how the pill has pervaded popular culture and popular thinking. He coins the genre title of "psychopharmacological thriller," a mouthful but apt: the film or TV show about not just drugs, but also their making, distribution, and effects. Under this last head, he unleashes a brilliant set piece on Carrie Mathison (played so well by Claire Danes in Homeland.) The Philadelphia Inquirer

Spis treści

Introduction: Pharmageddon1 Thorazine (C17H19ClN2S): The Psychopharmacological Revolution2 Valium (C16H13ClN2O): The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life3 Lithium (Li2CO3): The Psychopharmacological Thriller4 Prozac (C17H18F3NO): Existential Quagmires5 Adderall ((C9H13N)2H2SO4 + (C9H13N)2H2SO4 + (C9H13N)2C6H10O8 + (C9H13N)C4H7NO4H2O): Psychopharmacology UnboundCoda: Waiting for Brad PittAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotesIndex

O autorze

Robert Bennett is Professor of English at Montana State University, USA.