Robert Whitaker (1)
Autore di Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Per altri autori con il nome Robert Whitaker, vedi la pagina di disambiguazione.
Sull'Autore
Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history. He has written on and off for the Boston Globe and in 2001, he wrote his first book Mad in America about psychiatric research and medications, the domains of some of his earlier journalism. mostra altro Articles that Whitaker co-wrote won the 1998 George Polk Award for Medical Writing and the 1998 National Association of Science Writers¿ Science in Society Journalism Award for best magazine article. A 1998 Boston Globe article series he co-wrote on psychiatric research was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In April 2011, IRE announced that his book, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, had won its award as the best investigative journalism book of 2010. In 2015 it became a New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Robert Whitaker, 2017 By Dahlia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66489439
Opere di Robert Whitaker
Opere correlate
We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model (2019) — Prefazione — 19 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- science writer
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- George Polk Award for Medical Writing (1998)
National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Journalism Award (1998)
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (1999)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 1,779
- Popolarità
- #14,473
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 47
- ISBN
- 34
- Lingue
- 8
I learned a lot about measuring latitude and how to determine the shape of the earth and political maneuvering in colonial Spain and Portugal.