Prescribing by numbers drugs and the definition of disease /

Greene, Jeremy A., 1974-

Prescribing by numbers drugs and the definition of disease / [electronic resource] : Jeremy A. Greene. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. - xv, 318 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-308) and index.

Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril -- Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril -- Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market -- Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase -- The fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies -- Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





DNLM


Chemotherapy--Miscellanea.
Diseases--Miscellanea.
Drugs--Miscellanea.


Electronic books.

RM262 / .G74 2007

615.5/8