Robert Whitaker (author)
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Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history.[1]
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[edit] Awards
Articles which he co-wrote won the 1998 George Polk Award for Medical Writing[2] and the 1998 National Association for Science Writers’ Science in Society Journalism Award for best magazine article.[3]
A 1998 Boston Globe article series he co-wrote on psychiatric research was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service[4]
[edit] Biography
He was a medical writer at the Albany Times Union newspaper, in Albany, N.Y., from 1989 to 1994. In 1992, he was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT.[5] Following that he became director of publications at Harvard Medical School.[6]
In 1994 he co-founded a publishing company, CenterWatch, that covered the pharmaceutical clinical trials industry. CenterWatch was acquired by Medical Economics, a division of The Thomson Corporation, in 1998.[7]
He has written on and off for the Boston Globe and in 2001, he wrote his first book Mad in America about psychiatric research and medications, the domains of some of his earlier journalism.[8]
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[edit] Bibliography
- Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, Perseus Publishing, December 24 2001, ISBN 0738203858
- The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon, Basic Books, April 13, 2004, ISBN 0738208086
- On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation, Crown, June 10, 2008, ISBN 0307339823
