The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

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Publisher's Synopsis

Drugs for anxiety are a billion-dollar business in the United States. Yet in 1955, when the prescription tranquilizer Miltown became available, pharmaceutical executives worried that there was no market. In The Age of Anxiety , historian Andrea Tone provides a comprehensive account of the rise of America's prescription drug culture through the lens of our complicated relationship with tranquilizers.

Book information

ISBN: 9780465025206
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Basic Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 615.7882
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 422g
Height: 228mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 21mm