How Long to Read Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription

How Long Does it Take to Read Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 2 minutes to read Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription by Michael P. Hengartner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression. It outlines the steep increase in antidepressant prescription and critically examines the current scientific evidence on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants in depression. The book is not only concerned with the conflicting views as to whether antidepressants are useful or ineffective in various forms of depression, but also aims at detailing how flaws in the conduct and reporting of antidepressant trials have led to an overestimation of benefits and underestimation of harms. The transformation of the diagnostic concept of depression from a rare but serious disorder to an over-inclusive, highly prevalent but predominantly mild and self-limiting disorder is central to the books argument. It maintains that biological reductionism in psychiatry and pharmaceutical marketing reframed depression as a brain disorder, corroborating the overemphasis on drug treatment in both research and practice. Finally, the author goes on to explore how pharmaceutical companies have distorted the scientific literature on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants and how patient advocacy groups, leading academics, and medical organisations with pervasive financial ties to the industry helped to promote systematically biased benefit-harm evaluations, affecting public attitudes towards antidepressants as well as medical education, training, and practice.

How long is Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription?

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription by Michael P. Hengartner is 355 pages long, and a total of 90,525 words.

This makes it 120% the length of the average book. It also has 111% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 14 minutes to read Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription aloud.

What Reading Level is Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription?

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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