Jonathan Michel Metzl: 2 books
Prozac on the Couch
Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
Pills replaced the couch; neuroscience took the place of talk therapy; and as psychoanalysis faded from the scene, so did the castrating mothers and hysteric spinsters of Freudian theory. Or so the story goes. In Prozac on the Couch, psychiatrist Jonathan Michel Metzl boldly challenges recent psychiatric...
Cultural Sutures
Medicine and Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources—from news reports to Web sites to tv shows—for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news...