The Prozac boom and its placebogenic counterpart - A culturally fashioned phenomenon

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Slingsby, Brian Taylor ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cultural phenomena; Placebo; Prozac

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIETY; UNITED STATES;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FLUOXETINE; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036271771     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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