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The risks of prescription drugs [electronic resource] edited by Donald W. Light. - New York Columbia University Press c2010. - 1 online resource(167 p.) ill. 22 cm. - The Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk A Columbia/SSRC book . - Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk. Columbia/SSRC book. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 9780231519267

LCCN: 2010009014

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States Food and Drug Administration.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pharmaceutical policy--United States.
Risk assessment--United States.
Medication errors.--prevention & control--United States.
Drug Toxicity--United States.
Prescription Drugs--standards--United States.
Drug Industry--standards--United States.
Drugs--Risk assessment.
Pharmaceutical Industry--Risk management.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: RA401.A3 / R57 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 338.4/76151

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2010 M-013 QV 736 / R5955 2010