The Risks of Prescription Drugs

Edited by Donald W. Light

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Paper, 184 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14693-7
$15.00 / £10.50

October, 2010
Cloth, 184 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

• Economics & Finance
• Health
• Politics and Political Theory

Series

• A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)

About the Author

Donald W. Light is 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.

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