America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is
much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine,
professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions
of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely illustrative of the
complex relations among the producers, providers, and consumers of
medicine in modern America.
The tale of the prescription is one of constant struggles over
and changes in medical and therapeutic authority. Stakeholders
across the biomedical enterprise have alternately upheld and
resisted, supported and critiqued, and subverted and transformed
the power of the prescription. Who prescribes? What do they
prescribe? How do they decide what to prescribe? These questions
set a society-wide agenda that changes with the times and
profoundly shifts the medical landscape. Examining drugs
individually, as classes, and as part of the social geography of
health care, contributors to this volume explore the history of
prescribing, including over-the-counter contraceptives, the
patient's experience of filling opioid prescriptions, restraints on
physician autonomy in prescribing antibiotics, the patient package
insert, and other regulatory issues in medicine during postwar
America.
The first authoritative look at the history of the prescription
itself, "Prescribed" is a groundbreaking book that subtly explores
the politics of therapeutic authority and the relations between
knowledge and practice in modern medicine.
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