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"-Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy.- --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York -Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium.---Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling -Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes.- --The Midwest Book Review ""Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy."" --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York ""Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium.""--Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling ""Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes."" --The Midwest Book Review ""Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy."" --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York ""Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium.""--Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling ""Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes."" --The Midwest Book Review"

Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy. --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium. --Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes. --The Midwest Book Review Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy. --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium. --Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes. --The Midwest Book Review -Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy.- --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York -Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium.---Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling -Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes.- --The Midwest Book Review

-Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy.- --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York -Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium.---Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling -Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes.- --The Midwest Book Review Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy. --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium. --Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes. --The Midwest Book Review Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy. --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium. --Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes. --The Midwest Book Review

Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy. --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium. --Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes. --The Midwest Book Review

-Defining Drugs documents the evolution of social thought and action about pharmaceuticals in the United States in the 20th century. Written from a free-market perspective, Richard Parrish demonstrates how industry, goverment, and profressional leaders used science to justify the expansion of goverment power over standards and people. The Politicized definition of pharmaceutical fact cemented the foundation of pharmacotherapy in the modern pharmacratic state. Parrish's thesis will affect the current debates on federal power concerning the proper role of pharmacists, physicians, prescription laws, and Medicare prescription benefits; dietary supplements and herbal remedies; and nanotechnologies and pharmacgenomics. Scholary in documentation and persuasive in tone, Defining Drugs is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the debate about drugs and drug policy.- --Dr. Thomas Szasz, State University of New York -Parrish provides an invaluable analysis of the transformation of pharmaceutical regulation over the past millennium.---Peter Barton Hutt, Esq., Covington and Burling -Defining Drugs is an essential key for the medical profession and any who would understand the drug industry's regulation processes.- --The Midwest Book Review

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Richard Henry Parrish II is assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy at Shenandoah University.

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