Tag: women and psychiatric drugs
The Answers in the Attic: A Mother-Daughter Story of Overmedication and...
In 1959, my mother suffered what people referred to as a nervous breakdown after my sisterās birth. I puzzled over why Mom never recovered, until I found Dadās collection of medical records in my sisterās attic. How could anyone give a nursing mother with three small children so many drugs in such a short period of time?
āThe Sexist Ads Big Pharma Has Used to Hawk Drugsā
Martha Rosenberg analyzes the āslick, Mad Men-style adsā that ran in medical journals from the 1950s-70s āin which women clearly āknew their placeā and...