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Andrew Lakoff, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry.

Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Andrew Lakoff, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry.(Book review)

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Andrew Lakoff, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry. Cambridge University Press, 2006. $75.00 hardcover, $29.99 papercover.

Psychiatry has often been referred to as a stepchild among medical specialties. Lower in status and financial reward than the others, it straddles the worlds of biomedicine and social science. Sigmund Freud, the presumptive grandfather of the field, revealed his training as a neurologist when he introduced his topographic model of the mind. Somehow, it has proven easier to localize the amygdala and hippocampus...

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