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9780190612757

Choose Your Medicine Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America

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    9780190612757

  • ISBN10:

    0190612754

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2021-10-08
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States that presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution through the Trump Era.

Throughout American history, lawmakers have limited the range of treatments available to patients, often with the backing of the medical establishment. The country's history is also, however, brimming with social movements that have condemned such restrictions as violations of fundamental American liberties. This fierce conflict is one of the defining features of the social history of medicine in the United States.

In Choose Your Medicine, Lewis A. Grossman presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American health policy, law, and regulation from the Revolution through the Trump Era. Grossman grounds his analysis in historical examples ranging from unschooled supporters of botanical medicine in the early nineteenth century to sophisticated cancer patient advocacy groups in the twenty-first. He vividly describes how activists and lawyers have resisted a wide variety of legal constraints on therapeutic choice, including medical licensing statutes, FDA limitations on unapproved drugs and alternative remedies, abortion restrictions, and prohibitions against medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide. Grossman also considers the relationship between these campaigns for desired treatments and widespread opposition to state-compelled health measures such as vaccines and face masks.

From the streets of San Francisco to the US Supreme Court, Choose Your Medicine examines an underexplored theme of American history, politics, and law that is more relevant today than ever.

Author Biography


Lewis A. Grossman is Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at American University, where he has taught since 1997. He has also been a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellow at Princeton University and a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School. Prior to joining the American University
faculty, he was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP, and before that he clerked for Chief Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Professor Grossman's scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of Law and Medicine, Cornell Law Review, Law and History Review,
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, and Administrative Law Review, among others. He is the co-author of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials, the leading text in the field.

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