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

Contributor(s): Greene, Jeremy A, 1974- | Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012Description: x, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781421405070 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Prescriptions -- history -- United States | Government Regulation -- history -- United States | History, 20th Century -- United States | Professional Autonomy -- United States | Substance-Related Disorders -- history -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-320) and index.

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.

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