In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research was developing, the mental health world had no wins. Asylums were full and nobody had figured out how to fix insanity-specifically schizophrenia, the severest mental illness.
Scientists became convinced that if they could engineer a pill to create madness, then they could cure it. Centred around Solomon Snyder, the psychiatrist who ultimately did identify the madness pill, and the community of doctors and researchers he worked with, this book recounts the drug-fuelled quest to cure schizophrenia.
| ISBN: | 9781250337962 |
| Publication date: | 18th May 2026 |
| Author: | Justin Garson |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
Diseases and disorders Psychiatry History of science |
In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research was developing, the mental health world had no wins.
The Madness Pill features in the following genres: Diseases and disorders, Psychiatry, History of science
Hardback. £24.29, down from the £26.99 cover price. In Stock.
The Madness Pill was written by Justin Garson and published by St. Martin's Press
The Madness Pill has 240 pages
£24.29, reduced from £26.99. In Stock.