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~Prozac On The Couch: How to Control Women as "Free Radicals"-
So, let me get started on my rant which I promised you at the beginning of this newsletter. In an interesting but not well written book called "Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs" by Jonathan Metzl, one gets a peak into the gender relations of psychiatry and the impact of pharmaceutical ads, popular press and professional journals on the treatment of women. Miltown, or meprobamate, was dispensed to control women's discontent with their treatment by society, which caused their anxiety and threatened, like "free radicals" to tear apart the relationships between men and women. Tranquilizers were the "restorative cure" which conventional "talk" psychiatry couldn't offer.
So look at what is happening in the pharmaceutical/press world today when it comes to hormones. They have made "hormone" a dirty word, shifting blame and responsibility onto women for their marketing and hidden side effects. All you have to do is look at how eagerly doctors are willing to prescribe SSRI's, in place of estrogen to "calm" women down, to see where this is all going. Women need to take control of their own hormonal health and not let the "industry" of medicine ruin the quality of our lives and that of our families. Otherwise, we are looking at another decade of "valium now SSRI" addicts, and it's not a pretty sight. But I could be wrong.
Categories: prozac, menopause, hormones, gender, women, valium
~Prozac On The Couch: How to Control Women as "Free Radicals"-
So, let me get started on my rant which I promised you at the beginning of this newsletter. In an interesting but not well written book called "Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs" by Jonathan Metzl, one gets a peak into the gender relations of psychiatry and the impact of pharmaceutical ads, popular press and professional journals on the treatment of women. Miltown, or meprobamate, was dispensed to control women's discontent with their treatment by society, which caused their anxiety and threatened, like "free radicals" to tear apart the relationships between men and women. Tranquilizers were the "restorative cure" which conventional "talk" psychiatry couldn't offer.
So look at what is happening in the pharmaceutical/press world today when it comes to hormones. They have made "hormone" a dirty word, shifting blame and responsibility onto women for their marketing and hidden side effects. All you have to do is look at how eagerly doctors are willing to prescribe SSRI's, in place of estrogen to "calm" women down, to see where this is all going. Women need to take control of their own hormonal health and not let the "industry" of medicine ruin the quality of our lives and that of our families. Otherwise, we are looking at another decade of "valium now SSRI" addicts, and it's not a pretty sight. But I could be wrong.
Categories: prozac, menopause, hormones, gender, women, valium
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