| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-308) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : The pharmacopoeia of risk reduction -- pt. 1. Diuril and hypertension, 1957-1977 -- 1. Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril -- 2. Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril -- pt. 2. Orinase and diabetes, 1960-1980 -- 3. Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market -- 4. Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase -- pt. 3. Mevacor and cholesterol, 1970-2000 -- 5. Fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies -- 6. Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology -- Conclusion : the therapeutic transition -- Notes -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chemotherapy -- Miscellanea.
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Chemotherapy. |
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Subject |
Diseases -- Miscellanea.
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Diseases. |
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Drugs -- Miscellanea.
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Drugs. |
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Drug Therapy -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Chronic Disease -- drug therapy. |
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Diagnosis. |
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Drug Industry -- ethics. |
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Drug Therapy -- ethics. |
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History of Medicine. |
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Practice Patterns, Physicians' -- history. |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Medication. |
| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Greene, Jeremy A., 1974- Prescribing by numbers. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 0801884772 9780801884771 (DLC) 2006011616 (OCoLC)66463589 |
| ISBN |
9781435692053 (electronic book) |
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1435692055 (electronic book) |
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0801892090 (electronic book) |
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9780801892097 (electronic book) |
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0801884772 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780801884771 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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