The risks of prescription drugs /

The risks of prescription drugs /

Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions.The Risks of Prescription Drugs de...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Light, Donald, Jr., 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Series:Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk.
Columbia/SSRC book.
Subjects:
United States. > Food and Drug Administration.
Pharmaceutical policy > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > Risk management.
Drugs > Risk factors.
Drugs > Side effects.
Risk assessment.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Online Access:CONNECT
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Table of 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.

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