Prescribing by Numbers Drugs and the Definition of Disease【電子書籍】[ Jeremy A. Greene ]

＜p＞Winner, 2009 Rachel Carson Prize, Society for the Social Studies of ScienceWinner, 2012 Edward Kremers Award, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy＜/p＞ ＜p＞The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic diseaseーdiagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any overt signs of illness developーthat arose in concert with a set of safe, effective, and highly marketable prescription drugs. In ＜em＞Prescribing by Numbers＜/em＞, physician-historian Jeremy A. Greene examines the mechanisms by which drugs and chronic disease categories define one another within medical research, clinical practice, and pharmaceutical marketing, and he explores how this interaction has profoundly altered the experience, politics, ethics, and economy of health in late-twentieth-century America.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Prescribing by Numbers＜/em＞ highlights the complex historical role of pharmaceuticals in the trans．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る