The risks of prescription drugs
By: edited by Donald W. Light.
Contributors: Light, Donald, 1942-
Series: Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk; Columbia/SSRC book; Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk; Columbia/SSRC book
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231146920; 9780231146937
Subjects: United States. -- Food and Drug Administration; Pharmaceutical policy -- United States; Pharmaceutical industry -- Risk management; Drugs -- Risk factors; Drug Industry -- standards -- United States; Prescription Drugs -- standards -- United States; Drug Toxicity -- United States; Medication Errors -- prevention & control -- United States; Risk Assessment -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bearing the risks of prescription drugs / Donald Light; title: The FDA : inadequate protection from drug disasters and serious risks / Donald Light; title: The commercialization of medical decisions : physicians and patients at risk / Howard Brody; title: Pharmaceuticals and the medicalization of social life / Allan Horwitz; title: Medicalization and risk scares : the case of menopause and HRT / Cheryl Stults and Peter Conrad.