1. Bearing the Risks of Prescription Drugs

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Bearing the Risks of Prescription Drugs 1
4. 2. The Food and Drug Administration: Inadequate Protection from Serious Risks 40
5. 3. The Commercialization of Medical Decisions: Physicians and Patients at Risk 70
6. 4. Pharmaceuticals and the Medicalization of Social Life 92
7. 5. Medicalization and Risk Scares: The Case of Menopause and HRT 116
8. Epilogue: Toward Safer Prescribing and Better Drugs 140
9. Contributors 166