Pill (Object Lessons) - Softcover

Book 39 of 103: Object Lessons

Robert Bennett

 
9781501341946: Pill (Object Lessons)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1501341944 ISBN 13: 9781501341946
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

'You are what you eat.' Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals-and especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well as our bodies.

Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity not in T. S. Eliot's proverbial coffee spoons but in 1mg-, 5mg-, or 300mg-doses, Pill traces the uncanny presence of psychiatric pills through science, medicine, autobiography, television, cinema, literature, and popular music. Robert Bennett reveals modern psychopharmacology to be 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.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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About the Author

Robert Bennett is Professor of English at Montana State University, USA. His previous publications include Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City (2003) and, as co-editor, Deconstructing Brad Pitt (Bloomsbury, 2014).

From the Back Cover

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 'You are what you eat.' Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals-and especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well as our bodies. Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity not in T. S. Eliot's proverbial coffee spoons but in 1mg-, 5mg-, or 300mg-doses, Pill traces the uncanny presence of psychiatric pills through science, medicine, autobiography, television, cinema, literature, and popular music. Robert Bennett reveals modern psychopharmacology to be 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. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1501341944
ISBN 13 
9781501341946
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
176