Prescribed : writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern America
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Prescribed : writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern America
Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012
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Paperback ed: 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine, professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely illustrative of the complex relations among the producers, providers, and consumers of medicine in modern America. The tale of the prescription is one of constant struggles over and changes in medical and therapeutic authority. Stakeholders across the biomedical enterprise have alternately upheld and resisted, supported and critiqued, and subverted and transformed the power of the prescription. Who prescribes? What do they prescribe? How do they decide what to prescribe? These questions set a society-wide agenda that changes with the times and profoundly shifts the medical landscape.
Examining drugs individually, as classes, and as part of the social geography of health care, contributors to this volume explore the history of prescribing, including over-the-counter contraceptives, the patient's experience of filling opioid prescriptions, restraints on physician autonomy in prescribing antibiotics, the patient package insert, and other regulatory issues in medicine during postwar America. The first authoritative look at the history of the prescription itself, "Prescribed" is a groundbreaking book that subtly explores the politics of therapeutic authority and the relations between knowledge and practice in modern medicine.
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. The Prescription in Perspective
Chapter 1. Goofball Panic: Barbiturates, "Dangerous" and Addictive Drugs, and the Regulation of Medicine in Postwar America
Chapter 2. Pharmacological Restraints: Antibiotic Prescribing and the Limits of Physician Autonomy
Chapter 3. "Eroding the Physician's Control of Therapy": The Postwar Politics of the Prescription
Chapter 4. Deciphering the Prescription: Pharmacists and the Patient Package Insert
Chapter 5. The Right to Write: Prescription and Nurse Practitioners
Chapter 6. The Best Prescription for Women's Health: Feminist Approaches to Well-Woman Care
Chapter 7. "Safer Than Aspirin": The Campaign for Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptives and Emergency Contraceptive Pills
Chapter 8. The Prescription as Stigma: Opioid Pain Relievers and the Long Walk to the Pharmacy Counter
Chapter 9. Busted for Blockbusters: "Scrip Mills," Quaalude, and Prescribing Power in the 1970s
Chapter 10. The Afterlife of the Prescription: The Sciences of Therapeutic Surveillance
Time Line of Federal Regulations and Rulings Related to the Prescription
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
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