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Prescribed : writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern America / edited by Jeremy A. Greene and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prescription writing--United States--History.
- Prescription writing--Law and legislation--United States.
- Substance abuse--United States--History.
- Prescriptions--history.
- Substance abuse.
- History.
- Prescription writing.
- United States.
- Government Regulation--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Professional Autonomy.
- Substance-Related Disorders--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Prescriptions--history.
- United States.
- Government Regulation--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Professional Autonomy.
- Substance-Related Disorders--history.
- Physical Description:
- x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421405063
- 9781421405070
- 1421405067
- 1421405075
- OCLC:
- 741999157
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