In the early nineteen-seventies, investment capital installed genomics and biotechnology, thus displacing prostaglandins as paradigms for medical research and treatment, along with neglect of the prostaglandin inhibiting- properties of lithium and antidepressants. This intrusion ruined any hope of clinical progress, and infl icted a deep human and economic wound on society. In the mid-seventies, Julian Lieb, M.D began to compile a list of medical disorders that respond to lithium or antidepressants, and comprise the core of this book. With the worldwide meltdown of health care, readers will...