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I över femtio års tid har psykiatrin och läkemedelsindustrin hävdat att medicinerna mot våra vanligaste psykiska åkommor bara har blivit bättre och bättre. Om detta vore sant, kunde man vänta sig att antalet drabbade skulle ha minskat. Men så har inte skett. Antalet personer med psykiska problem har istället ökat explosionsartat - i takt med att medicineringen har ökat. Det är alltså någonting som inte stämmer med den psykiatriska framgångssagan. I Pillerparadoxen berättar vetenskapsjournalisten Robert Whitaker en helt annan, mer överraskande och mer chockerande historia. Med hjälp av omfattande kartläggning och analys av forskningen på området visar han bland annat att läkemedel som ges mot schizofreni, depression, ångest, bipolär sjukdom och ADHD inte alls har de långsiktigt positiva effekter som ofta hävdas. Tvärtom, visar forskningen, kan långvarig medicinering förvärra befintliga symptom och orsaka nya, samt i värsta fall göra dessa kroniska. OM FÖRFATTAREN Robert Whitaker är författare och journalist. Han har tidigare bland annat utgivit Mad in America, som av Discover Magazine utnämndes till en av 2002 års främsta populärvetenskapliga böcker. Robert Whitaker är även ansvarig utgivare för hemsidan Mad in America, ett i USA inflytelserikt forum för kritisk diskussion om psykiatriska mediciner. FRÅN MOTTAGANDET I USA "Pillerparadoxen är utan tvekan den mest belysande boken om psykiatrisk behandling som jag någonsin läst, och jag har läst hundratals. När jag tog del av den, och insåg omfattningen av de psykiska besvär som förorsakats av läkemedelsindustrin, drog jag spontant paralleller till Rachel Carsons Tyst vår." Bruce E. Levine, Huffington Post "Pillerparadoxen är ett av de mest alarmerande och betydelsefulla grävande reportagen jag har läst på länge. Kanske någonsin. Whitaker har övertygat mig om att psykiatrin i USA, i samarbete med läkemedelsindustrin, är i full färd med att göra sig skyldig till det största fallet av iatrogenes skadlig medicinsk behandling i historien. Han är den slags vetenskapsjournalist som gör mig stolt över att vara vetenskapsjournalist." John Horgan, Scientific American "En mäktig anklagelseakt mot hur psykiatrin fungerar idag." Marcia Angell, New York Review of Books "... argumenten är oroväckande klarsynta och genomgående underbyggda. Tillsammans bildar de en provokativ men trovärdig tes, som levereras med skönlitterär vitalitet. Whitaker lyckas vara fördömande och samtidigt envist optimistisk i denna fängslande, skrämmande och övertygande bok." Druin Burch, New Scientist "En viktig bok vars tes förtjänar seriös behandling." Alex Good, The Record "Pillerparadoxen kartlägger kontroversiell terräng på ett sätt som påminner om en kriminalroman ... Psykiatriska läkemedel har förändrat livet för miljoner. Den här boken undersöker vad som hade hänt utan läkemedlen. Det är ett alternativ värt att begrunda." Laura Fitzpatrick, The Time "Pillerparadoxen river ner psykiatrins noggrant uppbyggda och färgglatt målade arkitektur, och riktar sedan en halogenlampa mot rasmassorna som är kvar. Whitaker följer den gamla skolan. Han tittar på forskningen. Men till skillnad från andra författare läser Whitaker all forskning han kan hitta inte bara de studier som stödjer det förhärskande synsättet. Ta allt du vet om psykiatri. Vänd upp och ner på det. Då får du en ganska bra bild av vad Whitaker har upptäckt." Jenny Westberg, Examiner "Jag rekommenderar starkt denna bok till alla oss som är intresserade av vad som händer på psykiatrins område. Whitaker är en seriös och välinformerad undersökande journalist ... en solid, välunderbyggd framställan som vilar på fakta." Bernadette Grosjean, Psychiatric Services "Whitakers oroande tes är sannerligen värd ett grundligt övervägande och en seriös debatt. Medicinens historia, och psykiatrins historia i synnerhet, är överfylld av brett accepterade och tillämpade behandlingar som senare visade sig vara ineffektiva och skadliga." Daniel Herman, MIWatch UTMÄRKELSER Investigative Reporters and Editors, IRE, tilldelade 2010 Pillerparadoxen utmärkelsen bästa grävande journalistik i bokform med följande motivering: "Denna avslöjande undersökning av läkemedelsindustrin och dess kopplingar till vårdsystemet presenterar oroväckande belägg för att samma mediciner som skrivs ut mot psykiska sjukdomar kan bidra till att förvärra problemen. Whitaker framlägger bevis som tyder på att medicinerna riskerar att göra åkommor som depression, bipolär sjukdom och schizofreni kroniska och svårt handikappande. Whitaker varvar djupgående analys av medicinsk forskning och kliniska studier med övertygande exempel ur verkliga livet. Resultatet blir en svidande vidräkning med den förhärskande synen att psykiska besvär per definition kan och bör läkemedelsbehandlas."

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission. One was murdered, another perished from fever, and a third-Jean Godin-nearly died of heartbreak. At the expedition's end, Jean and his Peruvian wife, Isabel Grameson, became stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon, victims of a tangled web of international politics. Isabel's solo journey to reunite with Jean after their calamitous twenty-year separation was so dramatic that it left all of 18th-century Europe spellbound. Her survival-unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration-was a testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and the power of devotion.Drawing on the original writings of the French mapmakers, as well as his own experience retracing Isabel's journey, acclaimed writer Robert Whitaker weaves a riveting tale rich in adventure, intrigue, and scientific achievement.Never before told, The Mapmaker's Wife is an epic love story that unfolds against the backdrop of "the greatest expedition the world has ever known."

In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the Earth. Scaling the Andes and journeying along the Amazon, the mapmakers faced all manner of danger, while madness, disease and violent death each took their toll. However one, Jean Godin, fell in love with a local girl called Isabel Grameson. When the time came for the expedition to return to France, Godin travelled ahead to ensure the way was safe for his new family. But on reaching French Guiana, disaster struck: Spain and Portugal closed their borders and he was stranded, unable to return to Isabel. What followed lies at the core of this extraordinary tale - a heartbreaking 20-year separation that ended when Isabel, believing she might never see her husband again, decided to make her own way across the continent: a journey that began in hope but became hell on earth...Drawing on his own experience retracing Isabel's epic trek as well as contemporary records, Robert Whitaker recounts a captivating true story of love and survival set against the backdrop of what many still regard as 'the greatest expedition the world has ever known'.

Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book-updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends-Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we value most about the human mind.

Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia.The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet, censoring and silencing debate in the most extreme fashion. Yet it is undeniable that a secretive facility in Wuhan was immersed in genetically manipulating bat-coronaviruses in perilous experiments. And as soon as the news of an outbreak in Wuhan leaked, the Chinese military took control and gagged all laboratory insiders.Part-thriller, part-expose, What Really Happened in Wuhan is a ground-breaking investigation from leading journalist Sharri Markson into the origins of Covid-19, the cover-ups, the conspiracies and the classified research. It features never-before-seen primary documents exposing China's concealment of the virus, fresh interviews with whistleblower doctors in Wuhan and crucial eyewitness accounts that dismantle what we thought we knew about when the outbreak hit.With unprecedented access to Washington insiders, Markson takes you inside the White House, with senior Trump lieutenants revealing first-hand accounts of fiery Oval Office clashes and new stories of compromised government advisors and censored scientists.Bravely reported and chillingly laid out, Markson brings to light the stories of the pandemic from the people on the ground: the scientists and national security officials who raised uncomfortable truths and were labelled conspiracy theorists, until government agencies began to suspect they might have been right all along. These brave individuals persisted through bruising battles and played a crucial role in investigating the origins of Covid-19 to finally, in this book, bring us closer to the truth of what really happened in Wuhan.

This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science – from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science and science writers, provides an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time. Organized thematically, starting at the ‘Universe’, and moving smaller through the ‘Earth’ and ‘Molecules and Matter’ to ‘Inside the Atom’, with the final two sections looking at ‘Life’ and ‘Body and Mind’, it covers all the major scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computing, ecology, geology, medicine, neurology, physics and psychology, as well as mathematics. The Scientists will intrigue budding scientists, those fascinated by the lives of great individuals, and anyone curious to know how over the centuries we came to understand the physical world around us and inside us.

Strategies for African Development, edited by Robert J. Berg and Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, brings together the work of leading African and international experts to address the continent’s persistent economic and social crises. Emerging from the Committee on African Development Strategies, the volume situates Africa’s development challenges within both internal policy shortcomings and external shocks, such as fluctuating commodity prices, debt burdens, and donor dependence. Rather than offering panaceas, the contributors emphasize the difficult but essential balance between African-led reforms—particularly in agriculture, governance, and population policy—and more effective, better-coordinated international aid. With a clear-eyed examination of how political instability, weak institutions, and distorted economic incentives have stifled growth, the book underscores the urgency of linking aid to performance and channeling scarce resources into strategies that strengthen both productivity and self-reliance.At the same time, the collection recognizes the pivotal role of external partners, especially the United States, in shaping the trade, debt, and aid environment within which African economies operate. Essays examine sectoral strategies in agriculture, industry, and education while stressing the long-term requirements for building scientific capacity, institutional accountability, and regional trade links. By framing Africa’s challenges as both a continental responsibility and a shared global concern, Strategies for African Development speaks to policymakers, scholars, and practitioners committed to fostering self-sustaining growth. It makes a compelling case that Africa’s future prosperity hinges on a compact of mutual commitment: Africans implementing reforms attuned to local realities, and donors providing sustained, higher-quality support aligned with those reforms.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Strategies for African Development, edited by Robert J. Berg and Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, brings together the work of leading African and international experts to address the continent’s persistent economic and social crises. Emerging from the Committee on African Development Strategies, the volume situates Africa’s development challenges within both internal policy shortcomings and external shocks, such as fluctuating commodity prices, debt burdens, and donor dependence. Rather than offering panaceas, the contributors emphasize the difficult but essential balance between African-led reforms—particularly in agriculture, governance, and population policy—and more effective, better-coordinated international aid. With a clear-eyed examination of how political instability, weak institutions, and distorted economic incentives have stifled growth, the book underscores the urgency of linking aid to performance and channeling scarce resources into strategies that strengthen both productivity and self-reliance.At the same time, the collection recognizes the pivotal role of external partners, especially the United States, in shaping the trade, debt, and aid environment within which African economies operate. Essays examine sectoral strategies in agriculture, industry, and education while stressing the long-term requirements for building scientific capacity, institutional accountability, and regional trade links. By framing Africa’s challenges as both a continental responsibility and a shared global concern, Strategies for African Development speaks to policymakers, scholars, and practitioners committed to fostering self-sustaining growth. It makes a compelling case that Africa’s future prosperity hinges on a compact of mutual commitment: Africans implementing reforms attuned to local realities, and donors providing sustained, higher-quality support aligned with those reforms.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Instant Anatomy presents anatomy and anatomical relationships in a simple, unique, schematic manner to aid the speedy understanding and retrieval of anatomical facts. It shows structures such as nerves and blood vessels in their entirety, unlike the partial, regional presentations given in most textbooks. Covering the major aspects of anatomy, each section presents the relevant structures in double page spreads, with clear, full-colour diagrams on the left and concise text for each structure on the right. This new fifth edition includes more surface anatomy such as new myotome maps, bones of the hands and feet, principles of movement at shoulder and hip and images to clarify the understanding of the inguinal region and the lesser sac of the stomach.Ideal for use alongside a core anatomy textbook, Instant Anatomy is the perfect quick reference guide for medical students, surgeons, radiologists and those in many other specialties. The companion website at www.instantanatomy.net with its podcasts and wide ranging multiple choice questions provide invaluable exam preparation.

A solid knowledge of anatomy is essential within any number of fields throughout healthcare. A core discipline of all medical degrees, anatomy is generally taught in a series of laboratory sessions and lectures, requiring students to identify a particular organ or structure, explain its function and describe its relation to normal physiology. Students are expected to learn – and practicing clinicians required to remember – an enormous amount of anatomical information.A Visual Guide to Clinical Anatomy is an extraordinary visual reference guide, containing more than 900 high-quality illustrations of the human anatomy. Author and illustrator Robert H. Whitaker draws upon his 30 years of experience as an anatomy demonstrator and lecturer at Cambridge University to present a simple, easy-to-understand approach to both teaching and learning the subject. Each illustration is designed to provide a summary of key anatomical and clinical information of a specific topic or clinical condition. A comprehensive yet user-friendly anatomy resource, this volume: Covers the major areas of human anatomyProvides succinct, clinically relevant information for each illustrationOffers clear and accessible synopses of anatomical structures A Visual Guide to Clinical Anatomy is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any medical student, instructor, surgical trainee, physician, or healthcare practitioner.

We live in an age of electronic interconnectivity, with co-workers across the hall and across the ocean, and managing meetings can be a challenge across multiple time zones and cultures. This makes documenting your projects more important than ever. In Technical Documentation and Process, Jerry Whitaker and Bob Mancini provide the background and structure to help you document your projects more effectively. With more than 60 years of combined experience in successfully documenting complex engineering projects, the authors guide you in developing appropriate process and documentation tools that address the particular needs of your organization. FeaturesStrategies for documenting a project, product, or facility A sample style guide template the foundation on which you can build documents of various types A selection of document templates Ideas for managing complex processes and improving competitiveness using systems engineering and concurrent engineering practices Basic writing standards and helpful references Major considerations for disaster planning Discussion of standardization to show how it can help reduce costs Helpful tips to manage remote meetings and other communications First-hand examples from the authors own experience Throughout, the authors offer practical guidelines, suggestions, and lessons that can be applied across a wide variety of project types and organizational structures. Comprehensive yet to the point, this book helps you define the process, document the plan, and manage your projects more confidently.