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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453929703321

Autore

Greene Jeremy A. <1974->

Titolo

Prescribing by numbers [[electronic resource] ] : drugs and the definition of disease / / Jeremy A. Greene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8018-9209-0

1-4356-9205-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

615.5/8

Soggetti

Chemotherapy

Diseases

Drugs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril -- Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril -- Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market -- Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase -- The fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies -- Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology.