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Title The risks of prescription drugs / edited by Donald W. Light.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  RA401.A3 R57 2010    Available  ---
Description 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series The Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk
A Columbia/SSRC book
Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk.
Columbia/SSRC book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Bearing the risks of prescription drugs / Donald Light -- The Food and Drug Administration : inadequate protection from serious risks / Donald Light -- The commercialization of medical decisions : physicians and patients at risk / Howard Brody -- Pharmaceuticals and the medicalization of social life / Allan Horwitz -- Medicalization and risk scares : the case of menopause and HRT / Cheryl Stults and Peter Conrad -- Toward safer prescribing and better drugs / Donald Light.
Subject United States. Food and Drug Administration.
United States. Food and Drug Administration.
Pharmaceutical policy -- United States.
Pharmaceutical policy.
United States.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Risk management.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Risk management.
Drugs -- Risk factors.
Drugs.
Medication.
Added Author Light, Donald, Jr., 1942-
ISBN 9780231146920 cloth alkaline paper
0231146922 cloth alkaline paper
9780231146937 paperback alkaline paper
0231146930 paperback alkaline paper