HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Irving Kirsch, Publication Bias, Hair Loss
9 Dec 2017
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Chlorpromazine: synthesized just after world war 2. Looking for an anesthetic: put patients into stupor but not what he was looking forward, calms them down. Instead of focusing on severely mentally ill, they focus on everything else in society. Better living through chemistry: place all their faith in science, explosion of curiosity in biology of mental illness in 1950s: new drugs, lithium: schizophrenia. Imipramine: depression drug: lsd: psychiatrists taking it to understand hallucinations, people would take it and go and do talk therapy, miltown extends beyond psych circles. Types of disease mongering: take ordinary life processes medical problems, baldness: (cid:862)has emotional complications(cid:863), now found in medical textbooks, mild symptoms are blown up, portrayed as serious, life threatening diseases, take personal/social problems and recast as medical ones. Creation of new disorders: mid 1990s- sad mentioned 50x in us press. Of 19 authors, 18 had ties to pharma. Jama articles total prevalence of fsd for women aged 18-59 was 43%.
