Prescribed : Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America

ISBN 10: 1421405075 / ISBN 13: 9781421405070

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

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Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 11637066-75

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Prescribed : Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1421405075
• ISBN-13: 9781421405070
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Gewicht: 1,003 Pfund

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Inhaltsangabe

America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine, professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely illustrative of the complex relations among the producers, providers, and consumers of medicine in modern America. The tale of the prescription is one of constant struggles over and changes in medical and therapeutic authority. Stakeholders across the biomedical enterprise have alternately upheld and resisted, supported and critiqued, and subverted and transformed the power of the prescription. Who prescribes? What do they prescribe? How do they decide what to prescribe? These questions set a society-wide agenda that changes with the times and profoundly shifts the medical landscape. Examining drugs individually, as classes, and as part of the social geography of health care, contributors to this volume explore the history of prescribing, including over-the-counter contraceptives, the patient's experience of filling opioid prescriptions, restraints on physician autonomy in prescribing antibiotics, the patient package insert, and other regulatory issues in medicine during postwar America. The first authoritative look at the history of the prescription itself, "Prescribed" is a groundbreaking book that subtly explores the politics of therapeutic authority and the relations between knowledge and practice in modern medicine.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jeremy A. Greene is an associate professor of medicine and the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine and coeditor of Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is a professor in the History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950–1970, also published by Johns Hopkins.