TY - BOOK ID - 134685478 TI - Medicating modern America : prescription drugs in history AU - Tone, Andrea AU - Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel. PY - 2007 SN - 0814784429 PB - New York : ©2007 NYU Press, DB - UniCat KW - Drugs KW - History KW - Examines. KW - behind. KW - drugs. KW - eight. KW - histories. KW - important. KW - influential. KW - interconnected. KW - meanings. KW - most. KW - revolution. KW - thepharmaceutical. KW - through. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134685478 AB - With Americans paying more than 200 billion each year for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. The popularity of prescription drugs in recent decades has remade the doctor/patient relationship, instituting prescription-writing and pill-taking as an integral part of medical practice and everyday life. Medicating Modern America examines the meanings behind this pharmaceutical revolution through the interconnected histories of eight of the most influential and important drugs: antibiotics, mood stabilizers, hormone replacement therapy, oral contra ER -