Coming Age Zoloft PB Paperback - 2012
by Katherine Sharpe
This engrossing study tackles one of America's most pressing and omnipresent issues: our growing reliance on prescription drugs. Combining stout scientific acumen with first-person experience, Sharpe leads the reader through a complex subject.
From the rear cover
When Katherine Sharpe arrived at her college health center with an age-old complaint, a bad case of homesickness, she received a thoroughly modern response: a twenty-minute appointment and a prescription for Zoloft--a drug she would take for the next ten years. This outcome, once unlikely, is now alarmingly common. Twenty-five years after Prozac entered the marketplace, 10 percent of Americans over the age of six use an SSRI antidepressant.
In Coming of Age on Zoloft, Sharpe blends deeply personal writing, thoughtful interviews, and historical context to achieve an unprecedented portrait of the antidepressant generation. She explores questions of identity that arise for people who start medication before they have an adult sense of self. She asks why some individuals find a diagnosis of depression reassuring, while others are threatened by it. She presents, in young people's own words, their intimate and complicated relationships with their medication. And she weighs the cultural implications of America's biomedical approach to moods.
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- Title Coming Age Zoloft PB
- Author Katherine Sharpe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, NY
- Date 2012-06-05
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780062059734 / 0062059734
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.37 x 0.83 in (20.32 x 13.64 x 2.11 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Sertraline, Sharpe, Katherine - Mental health
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012374063
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.852
Media reviews
Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2012, Page 0
- Library Journal, 08/01/2012, Page 110
- Publishers Weekly, 04/09/2012, Page 42
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