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

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations.
Series 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject United States. Food and Drug Administration.
Pharmaceutical policy -- United States.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Risk management.
Drugs -- Risk factors.
Drug Industry -- standards.
Prescription Drugs -- standards.
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions.
Medication Errors -- prevention & control.
Risk Assessment.
United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Added Author Light, Donald, Jr., 1942-
Other Form: Print version: Risks of prescription drugs. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 9780231146920 (DLC) 2010009014 (OCoLC)540015686
ISBN 9780231519267 (electronic bk.)
0231519265 (electronic bk.)
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