Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac
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Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac

by David Herzberg

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Explores how tranquilizers and antidepressants became central to American ideas of emotional well-being from the 1950s onward.

ISBN-13 9780801898143 ASIN 0801898145 Views 116 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2010 Edition 1 Format Paperback Product Group Book Pages 296 Adult No Created March 31, 2026 Updated July 08, 2026
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Happy Pills in America traces the rise of tranquilizers and antidepressants in postwar United States society.

The book examines how these medications moved from clinical settings into everyday life and popular culture.

It explores the interplay between pharmaceutical marketing, medical authority, and shifting ideas about emotional health.

Readers gain insight into the broader social forces that shaped the modern era of psychopharmacology.

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