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Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family

An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-� -vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness to those who ingest it and fame and fortune to the man who can synthesize it. But when a brilliant and troubled research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt Friedrich and his family for years to come.

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Title of ebook: Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family
ISBN: 9781101080276
parent-ISBN: 9780143115670
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 416
Published: 06-2009
Released online for download: 06-30-2009
Author of eBook: Wittenborn, Dirk

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