Author: Jeremy A. Greene ISBN : 9781421405070 New from $27.00 Format: PDFReview
A blueprint for a new standard in the history of health care in America. Prescribed looks to the future and the past to better understand the whole picture surrounding the prescription today. The chapters reflect solid historical research, synthetic analysis, and useful insights for further work on recurring problems.
(Elaine C. Stroud, coeditor of American Pharmacy: A Collection of Historical Essays)A powerful guide that should be in any basic health collection... A fine pick for medical, science, and computer collections alike.
(Midwest Book Review 2012-01-00)Prescribed provides the reader with a much better understanding of how we have gotten to our current system of managing, and mismanaging, prescription drugs in the United States.
(Scott D. Grimwood Watermark 2012-01-00)Both the health care professional and the consumer will benefit greatly from this topical book. Prescribed describes how the prescription has progressed from a document written in Latin to an electronic text that is the principal dimension of people's current encounters with physicians, nurse practitioners, and other physician extenders... Highly recommended.
(Choice 2012-01-00)This book provides a good overview of the major problems relating to prescriptions and detailed coverage of particular matters for those who want to investigate them further.
(Nano Khilnani Biz India Magazine 2013-01-00)The emerging field of pharmaceutical history is well served by Prescribed, an excellent book that examines postwar American pharmacy and medicine by focusing on the act of prescribing.
(Gregory Higby Journal of American History 2013-01-00)This collection may do for the history of epistemology of pharmaceuticals and ideas about drugs what Rosenberg and Golden's Framing Disease did for the history and epistemology of disease.
(Dan Malleck Social History of Medicine 2013-01-00)The volume is an exceptional collection of stories, which not only reveals the history of the prescription in modern America, but also adds a significant layer to our broader knowledge of pharmaceutical and medical history.
(Mat Savelli Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2013-01-00)About the Author
Jeremy A. Greene is an assistant professor of the history of science at Harvard University and an instructor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Department of Medicine of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease, also published by Johns Hopkins. Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is a professor, vice chair, and director of graduate studies in the History of Health Sciences Program at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America and On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950–1970, both also published by Johns Hopkins, and the coeditor of Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History.
- Paperback: 344 pages
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (April 13, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1421405075
- ISBN-13: 978-1421405070
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.5 x 9.2 inches
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