Prescribed : writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern America / edited by Jeremy A. Greene and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-320) and index.

Goofball panic : barbiturates, "dangerous" and addictive drugs, and the regulation of medicine in postwar America / Nicolas Rasmussen -- Pharmacological restraints : antibiotic prescribing and the limits of physician autonomy / Scott H. Podolsky -- "Eroding the physician's control of therapy" : the post-war politics of the prescription / Dominique A. Tobbell -- Deciphering the prescription : pharmacists and the patient package insert / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- The right to write : prescription and nurse practitioners / Julie A. Fairman -- The best prescription for women's health : feminist approaches to well-woman care / Judith A. Houck -- "Safer than aspirin" : the campaign for over-the-counter oral contraceptives and emergency contraceptive pills / Heather Munro Prescott -- The prescription as stigma : opioid pain relievers and the long walk to the pharmacy counter / Marcia L. Meldrum -- Busted for blockbusters : "scrip mills," quaalude, and prescribing power in the 1970s / David Herzberg -- The afterlife of the prescription : the sciences of therapeutic surveillance / Jeremy A. Greene.