With Americans paying more than $200 billion each year for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical company is the most lucrative in the country. The appeal of prescription drugs in recent years has remade the doctor/patient relationship, instituting prescription-writing and pill-taking as an important part of medical practice and daily life. Medicating Modern America examines the meanings behind this pharmaceutical revolution through the interconnected histories of 8 of the most prominent and important drugs: antibiotics, mood stabilizers, hormonal agent replacement treatment, contraceptive pills, tranquilizers, stimulants, statins, and Viagra. All of these drugs have actually been popular, lucrative, prominent, and controversial, and the authors take a historic technique to studying their development, prescription, and usage. This point of view finds the histories of prescription medicines in specific cultural contexts while exposing the level to which modern disputes about pharmaceutical drugs echo concerns voiced by Americans in the past. Checking out the abundant and multi-faceted history of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States, Medicating Modern America unveils the unknown stories behind America’s pharmaceutical obsession. Factors consist of: Robert Bud, Jennifer R. Fishman, Jeremy A. Greene, David Healy, Suzanne White Junod, Ilina Singh, Andrea Tone, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
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