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Prescribed : Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America /

The first authoritative look at the history of the prescription itself, Prescribed is a groundbreaking book that subtly explores the politics of therapeutic authority and the relations between knowledge and practice in modern medicine.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Greene, Jeremy A., 1974-, Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Goofball panic : barbiturates, "dangerous" and addictive drugs, and the regulation of medicine in postwar America / Nicolas Rasmussen
  • Pharmacological restraints : antibiotic prescribing and the limits of physician autonomy / Scott H. Podolsky
  • "Eroding the physician's control of therapy" : the post-war politics of the prescription / Dominique A. Tobbell
  • De-ciphering the prescription : pharmacists and the patient package insert / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
  • The right to write : prescription and nurse practitioners / Julie Fairman
  • The best prescription for women's health : feminist approaches to well woman care / Judith A. Houck
  • Safer than aspirin : the campaign for over-the-counter oral contraceptives and emergency contraceptive pills / Heather Munro Prescott
  • The prescription as stigma : opioid pain-relievers and the long walk to the pharmacy counter / Marcia Meldrum
  • Busted for blockbusters : "scrip mills," quaalude, and prescribing power in the 1970s / David Herzberg
  • The afterlife of the prescription : the sciences of therapeutic surveillance / Jeremy A. Greene.