Publication Date
2012
Publication Place
Baltimore -
Johns Hopkins University Press, [2012]
Subject
Prescription writing -- United States -- History., Prescription writing -- Law and legislation -- United States., Substance abuse -- United States -- History., Prescriptions -- history., History, 20th Century., Professional Autonomy, Substance-Related Disorders -- history., Government Regulation -- history., United States.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
329
Physical Dimensions
24 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!117593~!4828
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2012
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-320) and index.. 117593. x, 329 pages : illustrations, map, facsimile ; 24 cm
Sample Text
"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 experiences of filling opioid prescriptions, restraints on physician autonomy in prescribing antibiotics, the patient package insert, and other regulatory issues in medicine during postwar America."--Book cover.
İçindekiler
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 -- De-ciphering the prescription : pharmacists and the patient package insert / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- The right to write : prescription and nurse practitioners / Julie 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 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.
ISBN
9781421405063, 9781421405070, 1421405067, 1421405075
