02918nam 22006853 450 991081202500332120240516125748.00-8147-8442-910.18574/nyu/9780814784426(CKB)1000000000522355(EBL)865938(OCoLC)779828321(SSID)ssj0000200607(PQKBManifestationID)11190103(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200607(PQKBWorkID)10220130(PQKB)10341889(MiAaPQ)EBC865938(DE-B1597)548296(DE-B1597)9780814784426(EXLCZ)99100000000052235520131125h20072007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMedicating modern America prescription drugs in history /edited by Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins1st ed.New York :NYU Press,2007.©20071 online resource (vi, 262 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations0-8147-8300-7 Contents; Introduction; Part I; Antibiotics: From Germophobia to the Carefree Life and Back Again; Mood Stabilizers: Folie to Folly; Hormone Replacement: " Educate Yourself"; Part II; Oral Contraceptives: Women over 35 Who Smoke; Stimulants: Not Just Naughty; Tranquilizers: Tranquilizers on Trial; Part III; Statins: The Abnormal and the Pathological; Viagra: Making Viagra; About the Contributors; IndexWith 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 contraDrugsHistoryUnited StatesExamines.behind.drugs.eight.histories.important.influential.interconnected.meanings.most.revolution.thepharmaceutical.through.DrugsHistory615/.1Tone Andrea1964-1643739Watkins Elizabeth Siegel1643740AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910812025003321Medicating modern America3989186UNINA