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

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

167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.