Acceptable Risk

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Penguin, Feb 1, 1996 - Fiction - 400 pages
Robin Cook has always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risk, he confronts one of the most provocative issues of our time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. Neuroscientist Edward Armstrong has managed to isolate a psychotropic drug with a strange and dark history--one that may account for the public hysteria during the Salem witch trials. In a brilliant designer-drug transformation, it is developed into an antidepressant with truly startling therapeutic capabilities. But who can be sure the drug is safe for consumers? Who defines the boundaries of "normal" human behavior? And if the drug's side effects are proven to be dangerous--even terrifying--how far will the medical community go to alter their standards of...Acceptable Risk.
 

Contents

Tuesday July 12 1994
30
Saturday July 16 1994
47
Monday July 18 1994
67
Friday July 22 1994
95
Saturday July 23 1994
126
Monday July 25 1994
139
Friday July 29 1994
173
Saturday July 30 1994
192
Monday September 19 1994
236
Late September 1994
253
Monday September 26 1994
278
Thursday September 29 1994
292
Friday September 30 1994
310
Saturday October 1 1994
318
Sunday October 2 1994
339
Monday October 3 1994
347

Friday August 12 1994
203
Friday August 26 1994
210
Early September 1994
229
Tuesday October 4 1994
363
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About the author (1996)

Robin Cook, M.D., is the author of more than thirty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful first novel, Coma. He divides his time among Florida, New Hampshire, and Boston. His most recent novels include Host, Cell, and Nano.

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