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Robert Whitaker is a journalist and author who writes primarily about medicine and science. He is the author of four books. His latest book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, will be published by Crown in April 2010."

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Average rating: 3.82 · 1,466 ratings · 336 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America 4.26 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, And The Enduring Mistreatment Of The Mentally Ill 4.15 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon 3.44 avg rating — 439 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation 4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Man Who Might Have Been: A Lost Biography (1899) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	My Country and Other Verses 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:
	8 Days A Week: The Beatles' Last World Tour 1966 by Robert Whitaker, Marcus Hearn 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Penney Darby, Peter Stastny, Darby Penney 3.48 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Instant Anatomy Cd Rom: Pc Version by Andrew Whitaker, Robert Whitaker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Overland to Oregon in the Tracks of Lewis and Clarke: History of the First Emigration to Oregon in 1843 by Edward H. Lenox, Robert Whitaker (Editor), R. Morgenier (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient? (p. 30)”
― Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

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“In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176)”
― Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

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“With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham (203)”
― Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

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