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Prescribed
. Ed(S): Greene, Jeremy A.; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
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Description for Prescribed
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. Editor(s): Greene, Jeremy A.; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5, 4 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBN; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405063
SKU
V9781421405063
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99-50
About . Ed(S): Greene, Jeremy A.; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
Jeremy A. Greene is associate professor of medicine and the history of medicine and the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease and Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, both published ... Read more
Reviews for Prescribed
A powerful guide that should be in any basic health collection... A fine pick for medical, science, and computer collections alike. Midwest Book Review Prescribed provides the reader with a much better understanding of how we have gotten to our current system of managing, and mismanaging, prescription drugs in the United States.
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