Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease by Jeremy A. Greene

Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease

Jeremy A. Greene

336 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease—diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any overt signs of illness develop—that...

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