Defining Drugs

How Government Became the Arbiter of Pharmaceutical Fact

Richard Henry Parrish II (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2003
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7658-0189-0 (ISBN)

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Drug-related morbidity and mortality is rampant in contemporary industrial society, despite or perhaps because, government has assumed a critical role in the process by which drugs are developed and approved. Parrish asserts that, as a people, Americans need to understand how it is that government became the arbiter of pharmaceutical fact. The consequences of our failure to understand, he argues, may threaten individual choice and forestall the development of responsible therapeutics. Moreover, if current standards and control continues unabated, the next therapeutic reformation might well make possible the sanctioned commercial exploitation of patients. In Defining Drugs, Parrish argues that the federal government became arbiter of pharmaceutical fact because the professions of pharmacy and medicine, as well as the pharmaceutical industry, could enforce these definitions and standards only through police powers reserved to government. Parrish begins his provocative study by examining the development of the social system for regulating drug therapy in the United States. He reviews the standards that were negotiated, and the tensions of the period between Progressivism and the New Deal that gave cultural context and historical meaning to drug use in American society. Parrish describes issues related to the development of narcotics policy through education and legislation facilitated by James Beal and Edward Kremers, and documents the federal government's evolving role as arbiter of market tensions between pharmaceutical producers, government officials, and private citizens in professional groups, illustrating the influence of government in writing enforceable standards for pharmaceutical therapies. He shows how the expansion of political rights for practitioners and producers has shifted responsibility for therapeutic consequences from individual practitioners and patients to government. This timely and controversial volume is written for the scholar and the compassionate practitioner alike, and a general public concerned with pharmacy regulation in a free society.

Richard Henry Parrish II is assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy at Shenandoah University.

1: “The Search for Order” between Progressivism and the New Deal; 2: Pharmaceutical Fact; 3: Letters between Leaders; 4: Dispensing Doctors and Counter-Prescribing Pharmacists; 5: Negotiating Reality: The Construction of Enforceable Pharmaceutical Standards

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2003
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-7658-0189-2 / 0765801892
ISBN-13	978-0-7658-0189-0 / 9780765801890
Zustand	Neuware