| 词条 | Robert Whitaker (author) |
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CareerWhitaker is a medical writer at the Albany Times Union newspaper in Albany, New York from 1989 to 1994. In 1992, he was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT.[2] Following that, he became director of publications at Harvard Medical School.[3] In 1994, he co-founded a publishing company, CenterWatch, that covered the pharmaceutical clinical trials industry. CenterWatch was acquired by Medical Economics, a division of The Thomson Corporation, in 1998.[4] In 2002, USA Today published Whitaker's article "Mind drugs may hinder recovery" in its editorial/opinion section.[5] In 2004, Whitaker published a paper in the non-peer-reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses, titled "The case against antipsychotic drugs: a 50-year record of doing more harm than good".[6] In 2005, he published his paper Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America in the peer-reviewed journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry.[7] In his book Anatomy of an Epidemic, published in 2010, Whitaker continued his work.[8][9][10] Mad in America{{main|Mad in America}}He has written on and off for the Boston Globe and in 2001, he wrote his first book Mad in America about psychiatric research and medications, the domains of some of his earlier journalism.[11][12] He appeared in the film Take These Broken Wings: Recovery from Schizophrenia Without Medication released in 2008, a film detailing the pitfalls of administering medication for the illness.[13] Anatomy of an Epidemic{{main|Anatomy of an Epidemic}}An IRE 2010 book award winner for best investigative journalism, this book investigates why the number of mentally ill patients in America receiving SSI or SSDI disability checks keeps rising, despite the so-called "psychopharmacological revolution." Whitaker's main thesis is that psychopharmacological drugs work well to curb acute symptoms. However, patients receiving prolonged treatment courses often end up more disabled than they started.[14] Despite these results from several landmark studies in the 1970s, in the 1980s pharmaceutical companies such as Eli Lily together with the American Psychiatric Association began more aggressively pushing second generation anti-depressants and anti-psychotics on psychiatric patients. Many prominent academic psychiatrists worked as key opinion leaders for the pharmaceutical companies, and were compensated millions of dollars.[14]{{rp|322}}[15] Awards and honorsArticles that Whitaker co-wrote won the 1998 George Polk Award for Medical Writing[16] and the 1998 National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Journalism Award for best magazine article.[17] A 1998 Boston Globe article series he co-wrote on psychiatric research was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[18] In April 2011, IRE announced that Anatomy of an Epidemic had won its award as the best investigative journalism book of 2010 stating, "this book provides an in-depth exploration of medical studies and science and intersperses compelling anecdotal examples. In the end, Whitaker punches holes in the conventional wisdom of treatment of mental illness with drugs."[19] Books
References1. ^author's biography {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602103604/http://www.themapmakerswife.com/Mapmaker's%20Wife/Author.html |date=2008-06-02 }} 2. ^article in MIT's The Tech 3. ^narpa.org interview with author {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703222037/http://www.narpa.org/mad.in.america.htm |date=2008-07-03 }} 4. ^news coverage of deal 5. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2002/03/04/ncguest2.htm | work=USA Today | title=Mind drugs may hinder recovery | date=March 3, 2002}} 6. ^{{Cite journal | last1 = Whitaker | first1 = R. | title = The case against antipsychotic drugs: a 50-year record of doing more harm than good | journal = Medical Hypotheses | volume = 62 | issue = 1 | pages = 5–13| year = 2004 | doi = 10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00293-7| pmid=14728997}} 7. ^{{cite journal|last=Whitaker|first=Robert|title=Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America|journal=Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry|date=Spring 2005|volume=7|issue=1|pages=23–35|url=http://freedom-center.org/pdf/anatomy_of_epidemic_whitaker_psych_drugs.pdf|accessdate=5 April 2012}} 8. ^{{cite news|author=Fitzpatrick, Laura|title=The Skimmer|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1983897,00.html|date=May 3, 2010|work=Time|accessdate=October 5, 2010}} 9. ^{{cite news|author=Burch, Druin|title=Does psychiatry make us mad? |work=New Scientist|publisher=Reed Business Information|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627550.700-does-psychiatry-make-us-mad.html|date=April 7, 2010|accessdate=October 5, 2010}} 10. ^{{cite news|author=Good, Alex|title=Book review: Anatomy of an Epidemic|url=http://news.therecord.com/Life/Books/article/715412|date=May 21, 2010|work=The Record|publisher=Metroland Media|accessdate=October 5, 2010}} 11. ^interview of Whitaker in The Street Spirit 12. ^A 50-Year Record of Doing More Harm Than Good {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704070518/http://www.madinamerica.com/Mad%20In%20America/Documents_files/50-yearrecord.pdf |date=2009-07-04 }} Medical Hypotheses, 62 (2004):5-13 13. ^ 14. ^1 {{cite book |last=Whitaker |first=Robert |date=2010 |title=Anatomy of an Epidemic |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=978-0-307-45241-2}} 15. ^{{cite news |last=Pereira |first=Joseph |date=2008-12-28 |title=Emory Professor Steps Down |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123000405102929417 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=2016-02-05 }} 16. ^1998 George Polk Award Winners at a Glance 17. ^1998 Science in Society Journalism Awards 18. ^1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/contest/press/AwardsPR2010.pdf|title=IRE Awards 2010|publisher=Investigative Reporters and Editors|accessdate=2011-05-11|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915142348/http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/contest/press/AwardsPR2010.pdf|archivedate=2011-09-15|df=}} Further reading
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