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
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History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Part I; Antibiotics: From Germophobia to the Carefree Life and Back Again; Mood Stabilizers: Folie to Folly; Hormone Replacement: " Educate Yourself"; Part II; Oral Contraceptives: Women over 35 Who Smoke; Stimulants: Not Just Naughty; Tranquilizers: Tranquilizers on Trial; Part III; Statins: The Abnormal and the Pathological; Viagra: Making Viagra; About the Contributors; Index.

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