{"product_id":"9781501341946","title":"Pill","description":"Author: Bennett, Robert\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781501341946\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 21 Mar 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 176 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003cbr\u003e\"You are what you eat.\" Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals   and especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well as our bodies.\u003cbr\u003e Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity not in T. S. Eliot's proverbial coffee spoons but in 1mg-, 5mg-, or 300mg-doses, \u003ci\u003ePill\u003c\/i\u003e traces the uncanny presence of psychiatric pills through science, medicine, autobiography, television, cinema, literature, and popular music. Robert Bennett reveals modern psychopharmacology to be a brave new world in which human identities    thoughts, emotions, personalities, and selves themselves   are increasingly determined by the extraordinary powers of seemingly ordinary pills.\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46619420295326,"sku":"UBD-9781501341946","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781501341946.jpg?v=1773899090","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781501341946","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}