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Title Medicating modern America : prescription drugs in history / edited by Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  615.109 M468 2007    ---  Available
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 Pharmaceutical Preparations -- history -- United States.
Drugs -- United States -- History.
Added Author Tone, Andrea, 1964-
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel.
ISBN 0814783015 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814783009 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814783007 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814783016 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLM 101301971
YDXCP 2448295
YDXCP 2448296
IG# 9780814783009
IG# 9780814783016
NLC 20080030432
NLGGC 301545200
AU@ 000040502724
NZ1 10914035

 
    
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