Readings

10/4/01

identity, mental illness, and medication; Prozac 

Luhrmann, Of Two Minds, 2000. 

   Introduction (pp. 3-24). 

   Chapter 7: Madness and Moral Responsibility (pp. 266-273). 

Kramer, Listening to Prozac, 1993. 

   Introduction (pp. ix-xix). 

   Chapter 1.  Makeover (pp. 1-21). 

   Chapter 7.  Formes Frustes:  Low Self-esteem (pp. 197-222). 

   Chapter 9.  The Message in the Capsule (pp. 250-300). 

   Afterword to the 1997 Edition (pp. 315-332). 

10/9/01

reaction against Prozac and other psychothera-peutic drugs 

Breggin and Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac, 1994. 

   Chapter 8.  Pushing drugs in America:  The long financial

tentacles of Eli Lilly (pp. 184-212). 

Valenstein, Blaming the Brain, 1998. 

   Chapter 5.  The interpretation of the evidence (pp. 125-163). 

   Chapter 6.  How the pharmaceutical industry promotes drugs and chemical theories of mental illness (pp. 165-201). 

Glenmullen, Prozac Backlash, 2000. 

   Introduction.  The Prozac Phenomenon (pp. 7-25). 

   Chapter 2.  Held Hostage:  Withdrawal, Dependence, and Wearing Off (pp. 64-105). 

   Chapter 5.  Behind-the-Scenes Forces:  Understanding the Prozac Phenomenon (pp. 189-232). 

   Epilogue:  Effecting Personal Change (pp. 333-338). 

added by students: 

Pomper, Stephen, 2000.  Drug Rush:  Why the prescription drug market is unsafe at high speeds.  http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0005.pomper.html  

Brick, John, Ph.D. and Carlton Erickson, Ph.D.  Drugs, the brain, and behavior:  The pharmacology of abuse and dependence.  The Haworth Medical Press, New York and London. 

10/11/01

antibiotic resistance    

Levy, 1992, The Antibiotic Paradox:  How Miracle Drugs are Destroying the Miracle. 

   Chapter 3.  Reliance on medicines and self-medication:  the seeds of antibiotic misuse (pp. 53-66).    

   Chapter 4.  Antibiotic resistance:  microbial adaptation and evolution (pp. 67-104). 

   Chapter 6.  Antibiotics, animals, and the resistance gene pool (pp. 137-156). 

   Chapter 10.  Antibiotic resistance:  a societal issue at local, national, and international levels (pp. 223-253). 

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/dailynews/antibiotic990325.html  

Galewitz, Phil, 1999.  Battling drug resistance:  New antibiotic faces tough challenge.  http://abcnews.go.com  ??

10/16/01

drugs and marketing in the Third World (public health) 

Andrew Chetley, Problem Drugs, 1995. 

   Chapter 1.  What is a problem drug? (pp. 1-11) 

   Chapter 5.  Antidiarrhoeals:  Dying for lack of a drink (pp.

39-53) 

   Chapter 6.  Antibiotics and diarrhoea:  A dangerous

combination (pp. 54-61) 

   Chapter 10.  Antibiotics:  The antibiotic crisis (pp. 78-109) 

10/18/01

students decide 

students decide