| Title |
Medicating modern America : prescription drugs in history / edited by Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. |
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| Imprint |
New York : New York University Press, c2007. |
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| Description |
vi, 262 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- pt. 1 -- 1. Antibiotics -- From germophobia to the carefree life and back again : the lifecycle of the antibiotic brand / Robert Bud -- 2. Mood stabilizers -- Folie to folly : the modern mania for bipolar disorders and mood stabilizers / David Healy -- 3. Hormone replacement -- "Educate yourself" : consumer information about menopause and hormone replacement therapy / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- pt. 2 -- 4. Women over 35 who smoke : a case study in risk management and risk communications, 1960-1989 / Suzanne White Junod -- 5. Stimulants -- Not just naughty : 50 years of stimulant drug advertising / Ilina Singh -- 6. Tranquilizers -- Tranquilizers on trial : psychopharmacology in the age of anxiety / Andrea Tone -- pt. 3 -- 7. The abnormal and the pathological : cholesterol, statins, and the threshold of disease / Jeremy A. Greene -- 8. Making viagra : from impotence to erectile dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman -- About the contributors -- Index. |
| Subject(s) |
Drug development -- History.
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Drugs -- History.
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| Alternate Author |
Tone, Andrea, 1964-
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Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel.
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