Robert Whitaker
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Robert Whitaker

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Robert Whitaker is the author of four books: Mad in America, The Mapmaker's Wife, On the Laps of Gods and Anatomy of an Epidemic. His newspaper and magazine articles on the mentally ill and the pharmaceutical industry have garnered several national awards, including a George Polk Award for medical writing and a National Association of Science Writers Award for best magazine article. A series he cowrote for the Boston Globe on the abuse of mental patients in research settings was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
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    • Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
    • Written by: Robert Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2010-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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    • Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
    • Written by: Robert Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Chris Kayser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2014-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

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