The Risks of Prescription Drugs.

Calling on a diverse range of experts, this book tackles critical questions about the pharmaceutical industry and the privatization of risk. To what extent does the FDA protect the public from serious side effects and possible disasters? What is the impact of giving greater roles to the private sect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Light, Don
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Colección:Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)
Temas:
United States. > Food and Drug Administration.
United States. > Food and Drug Administration
Pharmaceutical policy > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > Risk management.
Drugs > Risk factors.
Drugs > Side effects.
Risk assessment.
Drug Industry > standards
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Medication Errors > prevention & control
Prescription Drugs > standards
Risk Assessment
Industrie pharmaceutique > Gestion du risque.
Médicaments > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Médicaments > Facteurs de risque.
Médicaments > Effets secondaires.
Évaluation du risque.
risk assessment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Risk assessment
Drugs > Side effects
Pharmaceutical policy
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Epigraph; Chapter 1. Bearing the Risks of Prescription Drugs; Chapter 2. The Food and Drug Administration: Inadequate Protection from Serious Risks; Chapter 3. The Commercialization of Medical Decisions: Physicians and Patients at Risk; Chapter 4. Pharmaceuticals and the Medicalization of Social Life; Chapter 5. Medicalization and Risk Scares: The Case of Menopause and HRT; Epilogue: Toward Safer Prescribing and Better Drugs; List of Contributors.

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