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Ann Westmore

Ann Westmore is an Honorary Fellow in the Health Humanities and Social Science Unit, School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne. After completing a Master of Science in the history and philosophy of science, Ann completed a PhD titled 'Mind, Mania and Science: Psychiatry and the Culture of Experiment in Mid-Twentieth Century Victoria'. Her thesis gave rise to work with Museum Victoria and the University of Melbourne investigating nineteenth and twentieth century mental health care in Australia.

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Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder

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Title:: Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
Written by:: Greg de Moore; Ann Westmore
Read by:: Paul English
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 9
Duration:: 10 hours 45 minutes
Published:: February 28 2017
Available Date:: February 28 2017
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489379252
Genres:: Non-fiction; Biography; Science & Technology
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.

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 in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind – manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle. John Cade discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar disorder – lithium. It has stopped more people from committing suicide than a thousand help lines. Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health – the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness – and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.