{"product_id":"9781760113704-secondhand-finding-sanity-john-cade-lithium-and-the-taming-of-bipolar","title":"Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar","description":"For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them. In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind - manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle. John Cade discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar disorder - lithium. It has stopped more people from committing suicide than a thousand help lines. Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49079309893851,"sku":"9781760113704-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c4d95668-25d3-4cd3-b374-d870812b2ad0.jpg?v=1786118410","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781760113704-secondhand-finding-sanity-john-cade-lithium-and-the-taming-of-bipolar","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}