Overview

This stimulating book consists of a collection of 27 interviews with some of the key researchers in the field of psychopharmacology, including senior clinicians, basic scientists and drug developers within the pharmaceutical industry. It follows a very successful first volume published in 1996. These important and stimulating interviews will require the histories of antidepressants and antipsychotics to be rewritten. They provide a unique perspective on interactions between cultural, commercial and regulatory frameworks and on the emergence of clinical trials and their importance to psychiatry. Along with Volume 1, this title creates a new field - the History of Psychopharmacology, a field distinct from that of the History of Psychiatry or History of Neuroscience. 'The Psychopharmacologists 2' will offer illuminating reading for: all clinicians, laboratory and field scientists; anyone working in any branch of the pharmaceutical industry from marketing to medicinal chemistry; historians of medicine and science. These interviews do more than shed light on the past - this is psychopharmacology as it happens now, told from the inside. By detailing paths of developments that have not been taken, 'The Psychopharmacologists 2' opens up vistas for possible future developments that will be of relevance to public policy makers and the public in general.

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Author:   David Healy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Hodder Arnold
Edition:   2nd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 24.00cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   1.013kg
ISBN:  

9781860360107

ISBN 10:   1860360106
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   04 September 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780340761106
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

In the beginning in Paris Pharmacology, behaviour and chlorpromazine From haloperidol to risperidone The evolution of behavioural pharmacology From imipramine to levoprotiline: the discovery of antidepressants The enigma of isoniazid Back to the future evaluation and drug development 1948-1998 The place of clinical trials in the development of psychopharmacology Towards footings in a new science: psychopharmacology, receptors and the pharmacy within From hypertension to psychopharmacology - a serendipitous career Psychopharmacology: specific and non-specific Lithium Clincial psychopharmacology From neurochemistry to neuroscience Neuroscience and drug development Excitatory amino acids: from basic science to therapeutic applications Predisposed towards predispositions Personality, disease and psychopharmacology A psychologist in American neuropsychopharmacology The foundation of the British Association of Psychopharmacology Behavioural pharmacology Measurement and organisation in psychopharmacology Gerald Klerman and pscyhopharmacotherapy Marketing the evidence Drug hunting Approaching rationality? Managing uncertainty.

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Despite an imposing length (over 600 pages), broad scope and difficult technical detail, Healy's perceptive and critical questioning makes this text particularly wothwhile. Healy has done an admirable job of guiding and capturing the recollections and reconstructions of this first generation of pyschopharmacologists. Journal Of The History of Behavioural Sciences

Despite an imposing length (over 600 pages), broad scope and difficult technical detail, Healy's perceptive and critical questioning makes this text particularly wothwhile. Healy has done an admirable job of guiding and capturing the recollections and reconstructions of this first generation of pyschopharmacologists.Journal Of The History of Behavioural Sciences

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