Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder

by Greg de Moore and Ann Westmore

In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives--if they survived--in and out of asylums accumulating life's wreckage around them. But late in 1948 that changed, when an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar illness--lithium. John Cade changed the course of medicine with his discovery of lithium; yet today most doctors have never heard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760113700
• ISBN13: 9781760113704
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"