{"title":"Robert Whitaker","description":"Robert Whitaker's articles on the mentally ill and the drug industry have won several awards, including the George Polk Award for medical writing and the National Association of Science Writers' Award for best magazine article. He is also the author of The Mapmaker's Wife and The Lap of the Gods. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.","products":[{"product_id":"the-mapmakers-wife-a-true-tale-of-love-murder-and-survival-in-the-amazon-paperback","title":"The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission. One was murdered, another perished from fever, and a third-Jean Godin-nearly died of heartbreak. At the expedition's end, Jean and his Peruvian wife, Isabel Gramesen, became stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon, victims of a tangled web of international politics. Isabel's solo journey to reunite with Jean after their calamitous twenty-year separation was so dramatic that it left all of 18th-century Europe spellbound. Her survival-unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration-was a testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and the power of devotion. Drawing on the original writings of the French mapmakers, as well as his own experience retracing Isabel's journey, acclaimed writer Robert Whitaker weaves a riveting tale rich in adventure, intrigue, and scientific achievement. Never before told, \u003ci\u003eThe Mapmaker's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic love story that unfolds against the backdrop of the greatest expedition the world has ever known.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366001934559,"sku":"9780465057948","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MUeBNXFj4n9780465057948.webp?v=1789077254"},{"product_id":"mad-in-america-bad-science-bad-medicine-and-the-enduring-mistreatment-of-the-mentally-ill-paperback","title":"Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through \"cures\" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSchizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In \u003ci\u003eMad in America\u003c\/i\u003e, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy.\u003cbr\u003eThe widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, \u003ci\u003eMad in America\u003c\/i\u003e examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects.\u003cbr\u003eA haunting, deeply compassionate book -- updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends -- \u003ci\u003eMad in America\u003c\/i\u003e raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of \"insanity,\" and what we value most about the human mind.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376880910559,"sku":"9781541618060","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/L_zMxI8FyB9781541618060.webp?v=1789228849"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-whitaker.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}