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OverviewAmerica 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 experience of filling opioid prescriptions, restraints on physician autonomy in prescribing antibiotics, the patient package insert, and other regulatory issues in medicine during postwar America. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeremy A. Greene (Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University) , Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (Dean, Graduate Division, and Professor, History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781421405070ISBN 10: 1421405075 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 09 July 2012 Recommended Age: From 13 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"List of Abbreviations Introduction. The Prescription in Perspective Chapter 1. Goofball Panic: Barbiturates, ""Dangerous"" and Addictive Drugs, and the Regulation of Medicine in Postwar America Chapter 2. Pharmacological Restraints: Antibiotic Prescribing and the Limits of Physician Autonomy Chapter 3. ""Eroding the Physician's Control of Therapy"": The Postwar Politics of the Prescription Chapter 4. Deciphering the Prescription: Pharmacists and the Patient Package Insert Chapter 5. The Right to Write: Prescription and Nurse Practitioners Chapter 6. The Best Prescription for Women's Health: Feminist Approaches to Well-Woman Care Chapter 7. ""Safer Than Aspirin"": The Campaign for Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptives and Emergency Contraceptive Pills Chapter 8. The Prescription as Stigma: Opioid Pain Relievers and the Long Walk to the Pharmacy Counter Chapter 9. Busted for Blockbusters: ""Scrip Mills,"" Quaalude, and Prescribing Power in the 1970s Chapter 10. The Afterlife of the Prescription: The Sciences of Therapeutic Surveillance Time Line of Federal Regulations and Rulings Related to the Prescription Notes List of Contributors Index"ReviewsA powerful guide that should be in any basic health collection...A fine pick for medical, science, and computer collections alike. Midwest Book Review 2012 A powerful guide that should be in any basic health collection...A fine pick for medical, science, and computer collections alike. Midwest Book Review 2012 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. -- Scott D. Grimwood Watermark 2012 Author InformationJeremy 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 by Johns Hopkins. Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is a professor, vice chair, and director of graduate studies in the History of Health Sciences Program at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America and On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970, both also published by Johns Hopkins, and the coeditor of Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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