Prescribing by numbers : drugs and the definition of disease /

Prescribing by numbers : drugs and the definition of disease /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greene, Jeremy A., 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Chemotherapy > Miscellanea.
Diseases > Miscellanea.
Drugs > Miscellanea.
Drug Therapy > history.
History, 20th Century.
Chronic Disease > drug therapy.
Diagnosis.
Drug Industry > ethics.
Drug Therapy > ethics.
History of Medicine.
Physician's Practice Patterns > history.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Contributor biographical information
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Table of Contents:
  • Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril
  • Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril
  • Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market
  • Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase
  • The fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies
  • Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology.