Medicating modern America : prescription drugs in history /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
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- Folie to folly : the modern mania for bipolar disorders and mood stabilizers / David Healy
- "Educate yourself" : consumer information about menopause and hormone replacement therapy / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
- Women over 35 who smoke : a case study in risk management and risk communications, 1960-1989 / Suzanne White Junod
- Not just naughty : 50 years of stimulant drug advertising / Ilina Singh
- Tranquilizers on trial : psychopharmacology in the age of anxiety / Andrea Tone
- The abnormal and the pathological : cholesterol, statins, and the threshold of disease / Jeremy A. Greene
- Making viagra : from impotence to erectile dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman.