New reviews from the last 3 weeks on Metapsychology Online:
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How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing
Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
by Melody Petersen
Review by Elizabeth A. Throop, Ph.D. on Nov 11th 2008
Psychotropic Drugs And Popular Culture
Essays on Medicine, Mental Health And the Media
by Lawrence C. Rubin
Review by Kevin M. Purday on Nov 11th 2008
Bending Science
How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D on Nov 11th 2008
House of Happy Endings
A Memoir
by Leslie Garis
Review by Sue Bond on Nov 11th 2008
Happiness
A Revolution in Economics
by Bruno S. Frey
Review by Dan Turton on Nov 11th 2008
America Unzipped
In Search of Sex and Satisfaction
by Brian Alexander
Review by George Williamson, Ph.D. on Nov 11th 2008
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
DVD
by Cristian Mungiu (Director)
Review by Christian Perring on Nov 11th 2008
Confessions of a Former Child
A Therapist's Memoir
by Daniel Tomasulo
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA on Nov 11th 2008
Yin and Yang Yoga
DVD
by Simon Low
Review by Christian Perring on Nov 11th 2008
Madame Proust
A Biography
by Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Review by Tony O'Brien on Nov 11th 2008
The Shiniest Jewel
A Family Love Story
by Marian Henley
Review by Christian Perring on Nov 11th 2008
A Citizen Legislature/A People's Parliament
by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips, Keith Sutherland
Review by Robert Cheeks on Nov 11th 2008
Born Digital
Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
Review by David Jank on Nov 4th 2008
Mad, Bad and Dangerous?
The Scientist and the Cinema
by Christopher Frayling
Review by Lawrence D. Hultgren, Ph.D. on Nov 4th 2008
Mad, Bad and Sad
Women and the Mind Doctors
by Lisa Appignanesi
Review by Jennifer Radden, Ph.D. on Nov 4th 2008
Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality
by Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet (Editors)
Review by David Wall, Ph.D. on Nov 4th 2008
Feeling Pain and Being in Pain
Second Edition
by Nikola Grahek
Review by Simone Marini on Nov 4th 2008
Comprehending Care
Problems and Possibilities in The Ethics of Care
by Tove Pettersen
Review by Robert L. Muhlnickel on Nov 4th 2008
Mill's Utilitarianism
A Reader's Guide
by Henry R. West
Review by Bob Lane, MA on Nov 4th 2008
Writing Through the Darkness
Easing Your Depression With Paper and Pen
by Elizabeth Maynard Schaefer
Review by Sue Bond on Nov 4th 2008
Being with Dying
Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
by Joan Halifax
Review by Jason Thompson on Nov 4th 2008
Billy the Kid
DVD
by Jennifer Venditti (Director)
Review by Christian Perring on Nov 4th 2008
Dear American Airlines
A Novel
by Jonathan Miles
Review by Christian Perring on Nov 4th 2008
The Day Leo Said I Hate You!
by Robie Harris
Review by Christian Perring on Nov 4th 2008
Head Cases
Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
by Michael Paul Mason
Review by Alice Gee on Oct 21st 2008
Bleeding to Ease the Pain
Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self
by Lori G. Plante
Review by Glenn Sullivan, Ph.D. on Oct 21st 2008
Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy
Knowledge Here Begins Out There
by Jason T. Eberl (Editor)
Review by Carsten Fogh Nielsen, MA on Oct 21st 2008
How to Make Opportunity Equal
Race and Contributive Justice
by Paul Gomberg
Review by Sylvie Loriaux, Ph.D. on Oct 21st 2008
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A Developmental Approach
by Jeremy Turk, Philip Graham and Frank Verhulst
Review by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD, NCC, LMHC on Oct 20th 2008
Relative Stranger
Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness
by Mary Loudon
Review by Marnina Norys on Oct 20th 2008
The Sociology of Philosophies
A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
by Randall Collins
Review by A. P. Bober on Oct 20th 2008
Media Argumentation
Dialect, Persuasion and Rhetoric
by Douglas Walton
Review by Boris Vezjak, Ph.D. on Oct 20th 2008
Photo Art
Photography in the 21st Century
by Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig (Editors)
Review by Christian Perring on Oct 20th 2008
Perfect in Ten: Stretch
DVD
by Annette Fletcher
Review by Christian Perring on Oct 20th 2008
My One Hundred Adventures
by Polly Horvath
Review by Christian Perring on Oct 20th 2008
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Christian Perring, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dowling
College
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