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Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family
Pharmakon or The Story of a Happy Family
Author: Dirk Wittenborn
An honest, insightful, and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-à-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. — The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumble...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780143115670
ISBN-10: 0143115677
Publication Date: 6/30/2009
Pages: 416
Edition: Reprint
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  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Penguin
Book Type: Paperback
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Life of a professor and his family is changed by the use of a new drug. Although this book is fiction, it reads like a memoir.


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