Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments A great many people helped make this book possible. My thanks begin where the project did: with Paul Boyer, a generous mentor who advised students to ‘‘follow their bliss’’ and look for history in unexpected places, even if it took them away from his own areas of expertise (a di≈cult feat given his many interests). Judy Leavitt’s warmth and excellent skepticism helped orient me in the history of medicine and reminded me that people, not ‘‘culture,’’ make history. Thanks too to those who read early drafts of individual chapters, including Hiroshi Kitamura, Chris Wells, Gwen Walker, and David Musto. I was very fortunate to have funding in the project’s early stages from a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, and I owe thanks for research support from the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, the University of Wisconsin History Department, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The University at Bu√alo has been an excellent place to research and revise. Colleagues have been supportive, and department chairs work hard to protect time for scholarship. The university’s Julian Park Fund also helped defray publication costs. Susan Cahn provided moral support and invaluable comments at a late stage of revisions. Like most historians I owe many thanks also to librarians, including those at Lockwood and the Health Sciences Library at SUNY Bu√alo, the Bu√alo Public Library, the National Library of Medicine, and the New York Academy of Medicine (the last being one of the only U.S. libraries that did not cut out drug advertisements when they bound medical journals— a circumstance that at least some of their sta√ must have regretted when photocopying the gazillionth ad for me). I also have benefited from the suggestions of anonymous reviewers for American Quarterly, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins University Press. I am lucky to have had the guidance and support of my editor at Hopkins , Jacqueline Wehmueller, who has been generous with her time and x Acknowledgments insight. Finally, Verispan LLC generously donated prescription survey reports, for which I am grateful. Some people have helped so much that very little can be said about them without writing another whole book. Nan Enstad continually inspired me to see and work toward the best possibilities in the project. Nancy Martina and her allies gave crucial guidance in the last stages of revision. Don and Vickie Herzberg have given unflagging support throughout; this work would have been impossible from the start without them. And finally, three people who have never known me when I was not working on this book: Rex, Leo, and Erin. You are my happy pills. Happy Pills in America This page intentionally left blank ...