The Risks of Prescription Drugs

Edited by Don W. Light

Paper, 128 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14693-7
$15.00 / £10.50

September, 2008
Cloth, 128 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14692-0
$45.00 / £31.00

Chapters include: Donald Light, "Bearing the Risks of Prescription Drugs;" Sheila Weiss Smith (University of Maryland), "The FDA: Inadequate Protection from Drug Disasters and Serious Risks;" Howard Brody (University of Texas), "The Commercialization of Medical Decisions: Physicians and Patients at Risk;" Allan Horwitz (Rutgers University), "The Growing Risks of Medicalizing Life;" Cheryl Stults and Peter Conrad (Brandeis University), "Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals, and Risk Scares;" John H. Hoadley (Georgetown University), "Gaps in Coverage for Drugs Put Elderly and Poor Americans at Risk"

Related Subjects

• American Politics
• Health

Series

• A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)

About the Author

Donald W. Light is a professor of social medicine and comparative health care at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a senior visiting researcher at Princeton. Over the past quarter century, he has published articles on health care reform, markets in medicine, health insurance, and the changing medical profession. More recently, he has written a series of articles and chapters deconstructing prevailing foundations of national and global pharmaceutical policy.

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