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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossman, Lewis A., 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health attitudes.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Lewis A. Grossman examines the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States. He presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution through the Trump Era. The book is filled with vivid descriptions of activists and lawyers resisting a variety of government limits on therapeutic choice, including medical licensing statutes, FDA bans on unapproved drugs and alternative remedies, abortion restrictions, and prohibitions against medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide. He further considers the widespread opposition to state-compelled health measures like vaccines and face masks.

Contents:

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 (pages 311-384) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-061277-0

0-19-760658-X

OCLC:

1280068507