{"id":2436,"date":"2021-12-13T09:19:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:51:25","slug":"men-get-cured-women-get-drugged-her-self-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/leo\/men-get-cured-women-get-drugged-her-self-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMen Get Cured\u2026 Women Get Drugged.\u201d Her-self, 1974."},"content":{"rendered":"

Accompanied by advertisements for common prescription tranquilizers such as Stelazine, Librium, and Pavabid, an article by Michael Castleman of the Free People’s Clinic in the April 1974 issue of Her-self<\/em> shares statistics that reveal the extent to which women, on average, take tranquilizers more than men. According to Castleman, \u201cof the staggering 40% of adult Americans who take mood-altering drugs regularly, women outnumber men two to one\u201d (12). To explain why women are consuming drugs at a higher rate, Castleman cites a study by Dr. Lind Fidell, a psychologist at the California State University at Northridge. Dr. Fidell finds that, \u201cphysicians tend to take their male patients\u2019 symptoms of illness more seriously than those of their female patients,\u201d who were more often stereotyped as hypochondriacs, and that 75% of ads for mood-altering drugs in the magazine Modern Medicine<\/em> depicted women as likely beneficiaries of medication, convincing psychiatrists to target women (Castleman 12).<\/p>\n

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An article, “Men get cured… Women get drugged” by Michael Castleman, published alongside ads for prescription sedatives in the May 1976 issue of Her-self<\/em>. In the article, Castleman shares statistics on tranquilizer abuse that reveal that addiction is a feminist issue.<\/p><\/div>\n

The inclusion of these and similar statistics supports the stories of women, and illustrates with concrete data the dangers of prescription tranquilizers. Castleman concludes the article with his observations of similarities between ads for tranquilizers: \u201call of these ads have strong Freudian overtones: women are hysterical; it\u2019s all in their heads; women can\u2019t cope; they don\u2019t know what\u2019s good for them [but] luckily, their god-like male doctors do\u201d (13). Juxtaposing ads and statistics that undermine them, this summation by Castleman, an expert in the medical industry and advocate for patients rights, reveals the misogynistic tactics of the pharmaceutical industry\u00a0\u2013 from drug company to psychiatrist \u2013 that convince women that the cure is always a company\u2019s tranquilizer.<\/p>\n

Work Cited:<\/p>\n

Castleman, Michael. “Men Get Cured… Women Get Drugged.” Her-self<\/em>, vol. 3, no. 1, Apr. 1974, pp. 12-13. JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/community.28038343.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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