Prescribed - Writing, Filling, Using, Abusing Prescription in Modern America

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy A. Greene is an associate professor of medicine and the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine and coeditor of Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America, both published by Johns Hopkins. Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is a professor in the History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950–1970 , also published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy A Greene, Jeremy A. Greene, Jeremy A. (EDT)/ Watkins Greene
• Assisted by: Jeremy A Greene (Editor), Jeremy A. Greene (Editor), Jeremy A. (Associate Professor Greene (Editor), Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (Editor), Elizabeth Siegel (Dean Watkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2012
• EAN: 9781421405070
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0507-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine