Choose your medicine : freedom of therapeutic choice in America / Lewis A. Grossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossman, Lewis A., 1964- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical medicine--Decision making--Political aspects--United States--History.

Clinical medicine.

Medical laws and legislation--United States--History.

Medical laws and legislation.

Health attitudes--United States--History.

Health attitudes.

History.

Clinical medicine--Decision making.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Storming the Bastille of Orthodoxy: The Origins of American Health Libertarianism

2. "The Blood-Bought Freedom of Our Venerable Sires": The Antebellum Battle for Medical Freedom

3. Orthodoxy and "The Other Man's Doxy": Medical Licensing and Medical Freedom in the Gilded Age

4. Reining In Progressive "State Medicine"

5. Conspiracy Theorists and Con Men: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in the "Golden Age" of Medicine

6. The Spirit of the '70s: Vitamins, Yogurt, and Apricot Pits

7. AIDS Activists, FDA Regulation, and the Amendment of America's Drug Constitution

8. Modern Resistance to Orthodox Medical Domination

9. Life, Liberty, [and the Pursuit of Happiness]: The Long Struggle for Legalization of Medical Marijuana

10. The Right to Be Covered: Therapeutic Choice and Health Insurance

11. The End: Freedom to Choose and the Right to Die.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0190612754

9780190612757

OCLC:

1250306560

Publisher Number:

99988764318