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Prescribed : writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern America / edited by Jeremy A. Greene and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

Greene, Jeremy A., 1974- (Added Author). Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781421405063 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781421405070 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1421405067 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1421405075 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: x, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-320) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.