Edward Shorter (left) is the Jason A. Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous books, including A History of Psychiatry and Written in the Flesh. David Healy (right) is a professor of psychiatry in the Department of Psychological Medicine at Cardiff University. Formerly, he was the secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and the author of more than twelve books, including Let Them Eat Prozac.
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