Gail Bell: 4 books
Quarterly Essay 18 Worried Well
The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
In The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows, Gail Bell investigates Australia's depression epidemic. Why, she wonders, do well over a million Australians now take antidepressant drugs?
This is a fresh, frank and independent look at the depression culture...
The Poisoner
A Story of Family Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
"Readers with a strong stomach will enjoy this unusual memoir laced with a natural history of poison." - Publishers Weekly
Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the ground,...
Poison
A History and a Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
"Readers with a strong stomach will enjoy this unusual memoir laced with a natural history of poison." - Publishers Weekly
Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the ground,...
The Poison Principle
A memoir about family secrets and literary poisonings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
When Dr William Macbeth poisoned two of his sons in 1927, his wife and sister hid the murders in the intensely private realm of family secrets. Macbeth behaved as if he were immune to consequences and avoided detection and punishment. Or did he? Secrets can be as corrosive as poison, and as time passed,...