John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
by
Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them.
In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone...