Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives – if they survived – in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them. In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind – manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle. John Cade discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar disorder – lithium. It has stopped more people from committing suicide than a thousand help lines. Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health – the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness – and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.
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| Title | Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder |
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| ISBN | 1489379266 |
| ISBN 10 | 1489379266 |
| ISBN 13 | 9781489379269 |
| Date published | 2017-02-28 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| MRSP | 0.00 |
| Author | Ann Westmore, Greg de Moore |
| Binding | Audio CD |
| Language | en |
| Publisher | Bolinda audio |
| Tags | Biographies & Memoirs Internal Medicine Medical Books Medicine Nature & Ecology Science & Math |
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