The risks of prescription drugs / edited by Donald W. Light.

Date:
[2010], ©2010
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Publication/Creation

New York : Columbia University Press, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Bearing the risks of prescription drugs / Donald Light -- The Food and Drug Administration : inadequate protection from serious risks / Donald Light -- The commercialization of medical decisions : physicians and patients at risk / Howard Brody -- Pharmaceuticals and the medicalization of social life / Allan Horwitz -- Medicalization and risk scares : the case of menopause and HRT / Cheryl Stults and Peter Conrad -- Toward safer prescribing and better drugs / Donald Light.

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    Medical Collection
    QV736 2010R59
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ISBN

  • 9780231146920
  • 0231146922
  • 9780231146937
  • 0231146930