Table of Contents

In the beginning in Paris
Pharmacology, behaviour and chlorpromazine
From haloperidol to risperidone
The evolution of behavioural pharmacology
From imipramine to levoprotiline: the discovery of antidepressants
The enigma of isoniazid
Back to the future
evaluation and drug development 1948-1998
The place of clinical trials in the development of psychopharmacology
Towards footings in a new science: psychopharmacology, receptors and the pharmacy within
From hypertension to psychopharmacology - a serendipitous career
Psychopharmacology: specific and non-specific
Lithium
Clincial psychopharmacology
From neurochemistry to neuroscience
Neuroscience and drug development
Excitatory amino acids: from basic science to therapeutic applications
Predisposed towards predispositions
Personality, disease and psychopharmacology
A psychologist in American neuropsychopharmacology
The foundation of the British Association of Psychopharmacology
Behavioural pharmacology
Measurement and organisation in psychopharmacology
Gerald Klerman and pscyhopharmacotherapy
Marketing the evidence
Drug hunting
Approaching rationality?
Managing uncertainty.

Reviews

Despite an imposing length (over 600 pages), broad scope and difficult technical detail, Healy's perceptive and critical questioning makes this text particularly wothwhile. Healy has done an admirable job of guiding and capturing the recollections and reconstructions of this first generation of pyschopharmacologists.
Journal Of The History of Behavioural Sciences