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