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Title:

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

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

167 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

United States.--Food and Drug Administration.
Pharmaceutical policy--United States.
Pharmaceutical industry--Risk management.
Drugs--Risk factors.

Other Authors:

Light, Donald, 1942-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Bearing the risks of prescription drugs -- The Food and Drug Administration : inadequate protection from serious risks -- The commercialization of medical decisions : physicians and patients at risk -- Pharmaceuticals and the medicalization of social life -- Medicalization and risk scares : the case of menopause and HRT -- Toward safer prescribing and better drugs.

Series:

The Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk
A Columbia/SSRC book

ISBN:

0231146930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231146937 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231146922 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231146920 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2010009014

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)