Robert Whitaker
Journalist and author
Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author who writes mainly about medicine, science and history.
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American Born in Denver, United States
About Robert Whitaker
His reporting on mental illness and the drug industry has earned national honors, among them the George Polk Award for medical writing. He also won a prize from the National Association of Science Writers for a magazine piece. He was part of a Boston Globe team whose series on patient abuse in psychiatric research was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He founded and publishes the webzine Mad in America, which takes a critical stance toward the psychiatric establishment. His books include Anatomy of an Epidemic, Mad in America, The Mapmaker's Wife and On the Laps of Gods.