| Description |
x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- Deciphering the prescription : pharmacists and the patient package insert / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- The right to write : prescription and nurse practitioners / Julie A. 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 L. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-320) and index |
| Subject |
Prescription writing -- United States -- History.
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Prescription writing -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Substance abuse -- United States -- History.
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Prescriptions -- history.
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Government Regulation -- history.
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History, 20th Century.
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Professional Autonomy.
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Substance-Related Disorders -- history.
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United States. |
| Author |
Greene, Jeremy A., 1974-
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Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel.
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| LC no. |
2011029814 |
| ISBN |
9781421405063 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781421405070 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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1421405067 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
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1421405075 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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