Author: Greg de Moore

Title: Finding Sanity

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 336

Release Date: 2017-04-01

Details: In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives-if they survived-in and out of asylums accumulating life's wreckage around them. But late in 1948 that changed, when an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar illness-lithium. John Cade changed the course of medicine with his discovery of lithium; yet today most doctors have never heard of his name. His discovery has stopped more people from committing suicide than a thousand help lines, yet few counselors know of him. And it has saved hundreds of billions of dollars in health care costs-enough to rival a nation's economy-but you can bet that no politician has the slightest idea of who John Cade was. Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health; the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness; and a great story in the history of mental health.

EAN: 9781760113704

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.5 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 1.0251495183 Pounds, Width: 1 Inches