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Prescribing by numbers : drugs and the definition of disease / Jeremy A. Greene.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greene, Jeremy A., 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemotherapy--Miscellanea.
- Chemotherapy.
- Diseases--Miscellanea.
- Diseases.
- Drugs--Miscellanea.
- Drugs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rather, his provocative and comprehensive analysis sheds light on the increasing presence of the subjectively healthy but highly medicated individual in the American medical landscape, suggesting how historical analysis can help to address the problems inherent in the program of pharmaceutical prevention.
- Contents:
- Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril
- Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril
- Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market
- Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase
- The fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies
- Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9209-0
- 1-4356-9205-5
- OCLC:
- 310115350
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