Document Type
Book Chapter
RIS ID
10374
Citation
Beder, Sharon; Mosher, Loren R; and Gosden, Richard, 2004, Drug Companies and schizophrenia: unbridled capitalism meets madness, in Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia, Brunner-Routledge, Hove, East Sussex, UK.
http://ro.uow.edu.au/era/112
Abstract
The major thrust of this book is an examination of the psycho-social origins of, and approaches to dealing with, the problem labelled as 'schizophrenia'. However, it needs also to provide a historical context and examine critically how the current complete domination of schizophrenia's 'treatment' by the neuroleptic drugs (we'll use this term and antipsychotic interchangeably) came to be. Not only do they dictate practice, but they also buttress the biomedical theorizing that dominates thinking about the problem.