Marcia Angell is a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. Her latest book is The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. Part I of her article in this issue appeared in the June 23 issue with the title “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (July 2011)
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‘The Illusions of Psychiatry’: An Exchange
August 18, 2011
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The Illusions of Psychiatry
July 14, 2011
The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
by Irving Kirsch
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
by Robert Whitaker
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor’s Revelations About a Profession in Crisis
by Daniel Carlat
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)
by American Psychiatric Association
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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?
June 23, 2011
The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry—A Doctor’s Revelations About a Profession in Crisis
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How Dangerous is the FDA?: An Exchange
October 28, 2010
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FDA: This Agency Can Be Dangerous
September 30, 2010
Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
by Daniel Carpenter
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‘Drug Companies & Doctors’: An Exchange
February 26, 2009
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Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
January 15, 2009
Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial
by Alison Bass
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
by Melody Petersen
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
by Christopher Lane
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The ‘Dangerous Drugstore’
November 16, 2006
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Your Dangerous Drugstore
June 8, 2006
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The Body Hunters
October 6, 2005
The Constant Gardener
a film directed by Fernando Meirelles, based on the novel by John le Carré
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The Drug Companies and the Universities
December 16, 2004
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The Truth About the Drug Companies
July 15, 2004