Prescribing by numbers : drugs and the definition of disease /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
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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.