Robert Bennett (Montana State University, USA): Pill, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"You are what you eat." Never is this truer than when we take medications--from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals--especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well as our bodies. Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity not in coffee spoons but in 1mg-, 5mg-, or 300mg-doses, Pill traces the uncanny presence of psychiatric pills through science, medicine, advertising, autobiography, television, cinema, literature, and popular music. Ultimately, it argues that modern psychopharmacology reveals a brave new world in which human identities--thoughts, emotions, personalities, and selves themselves--are increasingly determined by the extraordinary powers of seemingly ordinary pills.