Prozac as a way of life - Chambers, Tod; Elliott, Carl, 1961- (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
Kramer's anxiety / Erik Parens -- Prozac, enhancement, and self-creation / David Degrazia -- The valorization of sadness: alienation and the melancholic temperament / Peter D. Kramer -- Passion, activity, and the care of the self: Foucault and Heidegger in the precincts of Prozac / James C. Edwards -- Good science or good business? / David Healy -- Kafka's boys: a story of sex and serotonin / Lauren Slater -- Care of the dying in America / Laurie Zoloth -- Pursued by happiness and beaten senseless: Prozac and the American dream / Carl Elliott -- The paradox of Prozac as an enhancement technology / Susan Squier -- The sound of one hand clapping: listening to Prozac in Japan / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Prozac for the sick soul / Tod Chambers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Fluoxetine -- Social aspects; Personality change; Fluoxetine -- Therapeutic use; Bioethical Issues; Depression -- Drug therapy; Personality -- Drug effects; Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors -- Therapeutic use