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 in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tone, Andrea
Otros Autores: Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2007.
Temas:
Drugs > United States > History.
Drugs.
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Chemicals and Drugs.
Médicaments > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médicaments.
Drugs
Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology.
Health & Biological Sciences.
United States
Examines.
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drugs.
eight.
histories.
important.
influential.
interconnected.
meanings.
most.
revolution.
thepharmaceutical.
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History
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Sumario: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 integral part of medical practice and everyday life. Medicating Modern America examines the meanings behind this pharmaceutical revolution through the interconnected histories of eight of the most influential and important drugs: antibiotics, mood stabilizers, hormone replacement therapy, oral contrac.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages)
ISBN:9780814784426
0814784429

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