magic-bullet

Like the idea of magic-bullet medicine, the notion that our personal history makes us who we are, that our troubles come from a mum and dad whose troubles were handed to them by theirs, is so much in our bones that it is easy to forget that it once didn’t exist.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

At the time it looked as if the Gulf might be a magic-bullet solution to America's energy and national-security needs.

An Oil-Thirsty America Neil King Jr. 2010

Although it has withstood the test of time, the theory was considered by some – and depicted by director Oliver Stone's 1991 film "JFK"– as a magic-bullet concoction designed to cover up a perceived right-wing conspiracy.

Arlen Specter: Senate Tenure Not Defined By Party Label AP 2011

Although it has withstood the test of time, the theory was considered by some – and depicted by director Oliver Stone's 1991 film "JFK" – as a magic-bullet concoction designed to cover up a perceived right-wing conspiracy.

Arlen Specter: Senate Tenure Not Defined By Party Label AP 2011

But there is an obvious connection between his theory and the magic-bullet ideas behind them.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

This is the great advance in diagnostics brought on by magic-bullet medicine: the symptoms of a disease are only the signs of the disease, not the disease itself.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

After a long period of denial, she went to doctors, one after another, and eventually concluded that there was no surgery, no manipulation, no magic-bullet cure.

'Pain Chronicles': Understanding Pain As A Disease 2010

Depression is surely not the only disease that lacks a biochemical known cause; indeed, as scientists grasp more of the complexities of our biochemistry, the magic-bullet model becomes increasingly inadequate to explain illness or to generate cures.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

After a long period of denial, she went to doctors, one after another, and eventually concluded that there was no surgery, no manipulation, no magic-bullet cure.

'Pain Chronicles': Understanding Pain As A Disease 2010

Kraepelin had done his part to make psychiatry more like the medicine that was emerging in the wake of the magic-bullet revolution.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010