Slater, Lauren

"Explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's major psychotropic drugs, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, through Prozac and Ecstasy, to today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants"--OCLC.

Presents a collection of twenty essays originally published in various periodicals by a number of noted writers including Joseph Epstein, Sam Pickering, Alan Shapiro, and others.