List of Abbreviations | p. ix |
Introduction: The Prescription in Perspective | p. 1 |
Goofball Panic: Barbiturates, "Dangerous" and Addictive Drugs, and the Regulation of Medicine in Postwar America | p. 23 |
Pharmacological Restraints: Antibiotic Prescribing and the Limits of Physician Autonomy | p. 46 |
"Eroding the Physician's Control of Therapy": The Postwar Politics of the Prescription | p. 66 |
Deciphering the Prescription: Pharmacists and the Patient Package Insert | p. 91 |
The Right to Write: Prescription and Nurse Practitioners | p. 117 |
The Best Prescription for Women's Health: Feminist Approaches to Well-Woman Care | p. 134 |
"Safer Than Aspirin": The Campaign for Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptives and Emergency Contraceptive Pills | p. 157 |
The Prescription as Stigma: Opioid Pain Relievers and the Long Walk to the Pharmacy Counter | p. 184 |
Busted for Blockbusters: "Scrip Mills," Quaalude, and Prescribing Power in the 1970s | p. 207 |
The Afterlife of the Prescription: The Sciences of Therapeutic Surveillance | p. 232 |
Time Line of Federal Regulations and Rulings Related to the Prescription | p. 257 |
Notes | p. 259 |
List of Contributors | p. 321 |
Index | p. 323 |
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