Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern AmericaJeremy A. Greene, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins “Both the health care professional and the consumer will benefit greatly from this topical book . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice The prescription is more than a piece of paper—or just as likely these days, a piece of digital data. 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. |
Contents
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Antibiotic Prescribing and | |
The Postwar | |
Pharmacists and the Patient | |
Prescription and Nurse Practitioners | |
Feminist | |
The Campaign for OvertheCounter | |
Opioid Pain Relievers and | |
Scrip Mills Quaalude | |
The Sciences | |
Time Line of Federal Regulations and Rulings Related to | |
Index | |
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