Robert Whitaker (author)

Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history. [ [http://www.themapmakerswife.com/Mapmaker%27s%20Wife/Author.html author's 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. [ [http://www-tech.mit.edu/V112/N58/knight.58n.html article in MIT's The Tech] ] Following that he became director of publications at Harvard Medical School. [ [http://www.narpa.org/mad.in.america.htm narpa.org interview with author] ] In 1994 he co-founded a publishing company, CenterWatch, that coveredthe pharmaceutical clinical trials industry. CenterWatch was acquired by Medical Economics, a division of The Thomson Corporation, in 1998. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_17_27/ai_53453429 news coverage of deal] ]

Articles which he co-wrote won the 1998 George Polk Award for Medical Writing [ [http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/prev/prev98.html 1998 George Polk Award Winners at a Glance] ] and the 1998 National Association for Science Writers’ Science in Society Journalism Award for best magazine article. [ [http://www.nasw.org/awards/1998/index.htm 1998 Science in Society Journalism Awards] ] A 1998 "Boston Globe" article series he co-wrote on psychiatric research was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. [ [http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1999/data/press-release/1999-winners-longlist.pdf 1999 Pulitzer Prize List] ]

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. [ [http://www.thestreetspirit.org/August2005/interview.htm interview of Whitaker in The Street Spirit] ] [ [http://www.madinamerica.com/Mad%20In%20America/Documents_files/50-yearrecord.pdf A 50-Year Record of Doing More Harm Than Good] Medical Hypotheses, 62 (2004):5-13]

References

Bibliography

*" [http://www.madinamerica.com/ Mad In America] : Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill", Perseus Publishing, December 24 2001, ISBN 0738203858
*" [http://www.themapmakerswife.com/ The Mapmaker's Wife] : A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon", Basic Books, April 13, 2004, ISBN 0738208086
*" [http://www.onthelapsofgods.com/ 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

External links

* [http://www.whitakeronline.org/ Author's Website]