Prescribing by numbers : drugs and the definition of disease /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greene, Jeremy A., 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Chemotherapy > Miscellanea.
Diseases > Miscellanea.
Drugs > Miscellanea.
Diagnosis.
Medicine > History.
Drug Therapy > history
History, 20th Century
Chronic Disease > drug therapy
Diagnosis
Drug Industry > ethics
Drug Therapy > ethics
History of Medicine
Practice Patterns, Physicians' > history
Chimiothérapie > Miscellanées.
Maladies > Miscellanées.
Médicaments > Miscellanées.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Diagnostics.
Médecine > Histoire.
diagnosis.
history of medicine.
MEDICAL > Chemotherapy.
Medicine
Chemotherapy
Diseases
Drugs
History
Trivia and miscellanea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : The pharmacopoeia of risk reduction
  • pt. 1. Diuril and hypertension, 1957-1977
  • 1. Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril
  • 2. Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril
  • pt. 2. Orinase and diabetes, 1960-1980
  • 3. Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market
  • 4. Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase
  • pt. 3. Mevacor and cholesterol, 1970-2000
  • 5. The fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies
  • 6. Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology
  • Conclusion : the therapeutic transition
  • Notes
  • Index.

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