Medicating Modern America : Prescription Drugs in History / ed. by Andrea Tone, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
Bud, Robert, contributor.; Fishman, Jennifer R., contributor.; Greene, Jeremy A., contributor.; Healy, David, contributor.; Singh, Ilina, contributor.; Tone, Andrea, contributor.; Tone, Andrea, editor.; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel, contributor.; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel, editor.
2007
RS67.U6 M43 2007
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Medicating Modern America : Prescription Drugs in History / ed. by Andrea Tone, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
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9780814784426
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814784426.001.0001
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New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814784426.001.0001 doi
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RS67.U6 M43 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
615/.1
Summary
With Americans paying more than $200 billion each year for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. The popularity of prescription drugs in recent decades has remade the doctor/patient relationship, instituting prescription-writing and pill-taking as an integral part of medical practice and everyday life.Medicating Modern America examines the meanings behind this pharmaceutical revolution through the interconnected histories of eight of the most influential and important drugs: antibiotics, mood stabilizers, hormone replacement therapy, oral contraceptives, tranquilizers, stimulants, statins, and Viagra. All of these drugs have been popular, profitable, influential, and controversial, and the authors take a historical approach to studying their development, prescription, and consumption. This perspective locates the histories of prescription medicines in specific cultural contexts while revealing the extent to which contemporary debates about pharmaceutical drugs echo concerns voiced by Americans in the past.Exploring the rich and multi-faceted history of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States, Medicating Modern America unveils the untold stories behind America's pharmaceutical obsession.Contributors include: Robert Bud, Jennifer R. Fishman, Jeremy A. Greene, David Healy, Suzanne White Junod, Ilina Singh, Andrea Tone, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
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Bud, Robert, contributor.
Fishman, Jennifer R., contributor.
Greene, Jeremy A., contributor.
Healy, David, contributor.
Singh, Ilina, contributor.
Tone, Andrea, contributor.
Tone, Andrea, editor.
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel, contributor.
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel, editor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part I
1.Antibiotics. From Germophobia to the Carefree Life and Back Again: The Lifecycle of the Antibiotic Brand
2. Mood Stabilizers. Folie to Folly: The Modern Mania for Bipolar Disorders and Mood Stabilizers
3. Hormone Replacement. ''Educate Yourself": Consumer Information about Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy
Part II
4. Oral Contraceptives. Women over 35 Who Smoke: A Case Study in Risk Management and Risk Communications, 1960-1989
5. Stimulants. Not Just Naughty: 50 Years of Stimulant Drug Advertising
6. Tranquilizer. Tranquilizers on Trial: Psychopharmacology in the Age of Anxiety
Part III
7. Statins. The Abnormal and the Pathological: Cholesterol, Statins, and the Threshold of Disease
8. Viagra. Making Viagra: From Impotence to Erectile Dysfunction
About the Contributors
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