TY  - JOUR
T1  - Prescribed: Writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern america
AU  - Rawson NB
Y1  - 2012/12/26
N1  - 10.1001/jama.308.24.2628
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2628
EP  - 2628
VL  - 308
IS  - 24
N2  - 
The editors state that Prescribed is “a collaborative vision on the part of ten historians of American medicine whose work has converged to illuminate our understanding of the prescription as an object of mutual interest and urgent relevance in understanding changes in the material, political, economic, cultural, and epistemological dimensions of therapeutic authority that took place over the second half of the twentieth century in the United States” (p 3). This lofty goal is achieved by focusing on 4 themes: (1) how the prescription forms a boundary between different professional identities and between the professions and the public; (2) how the prescription is a hub for the maintenance of the authority of physicians as well as a focus for campaigns against the dominating influence of the medical profession; (3) the underlying commercial nature of the prescription process; and (4) the commercial and public health knowledge inherent in prescriptions and actions to unlock it.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.308.24.2628
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.308.24.2628
ER  -