Medicating Modern America : Prescription Drugs in History /

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With Americans paying more than $200 billion each year for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. The popularity of prescription drugs in recent decades has remade the doctor/patient relationship, instituting prescription-writing and pill-taking as an i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bud, Robert (Contribuidor), Fishman, Jennifer R. (Contribuidor), Greene, Jeremy A. (Contribuidor), Healy, David (Contribuidor), Singh, Ilina (Contribuidor), Tone, Andrea (Contribuidor, Editor ), Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2007]
Temas:
Drugs > United States > History.
Drugs.
SCIENCE / History.
Examines.
behind.
drugs.
eight.
histories.
important.
influential.
interconnected.
meanings.
most.
revolution.
thepharmaceutical.
through.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • 1.Antibiotics. From Germophobia to the Carefree Life and Back Again: The Lifecycle of the Antibiotic Brand
  • 2. Mood Stabilizers. Folie to Folly: The Modern Mania for Bipolar Disorders and Mood Stabilizers
  • 3. Hormone Replacement. ''Educate Yourself": Consumer Information about Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy
  • Part II
  • 4. Oral Contraceptives. Women over 35 Who Smoke: A Case Study in Risk Management and Risk Communications, 1960-1989
  • 5. Stimulants. Not Just Naughty: 50 Years of Stimulant Drug Advertising
  • 6. Tranquilizer. Tranquilizers on Trial: Psychopharmacology in the Age of Anxiety
  • Part III
  • 7. Statins. The Abnormal and the Pathological: Cholesterol, Statins, and the Threshold of Disease
  • 8. Viagra. Making Viagra: From Impotence to Erectile Dysfunction
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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