Prescribing by numbers
Subtitle: drugs and the definition of disease
By: Jeremy A. Greene.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780801884771
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.
Genres: Miscellanea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril; title: Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril; title: Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market; title: Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase; title: The fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies; title: Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology.