Robert Whitaker
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Robert Whitaker

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Robert Whitaker is the author of four books: Mad in America, The Mapmaker's Wife, On the Laps of Gods and Anatomy of an Epidemic. His newspaper and magazine articles on the mentally ill and the pharmaceutical industry have garnered several national awards, including a George Polk Award for medical writing and a National Association of Science Writers Award for best magazine article. A series he cowrote for the Boston Globe on the abuse of mental patients in research settings was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
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    • Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
    • By: Robert Whitaker
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    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
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