Taking the Medicine
Taking the Medicine

Author: Druin Burch

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1407021222

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Doctors and patients alike trust the medical profession and its therapeutic powers; yet this trust has often been misplaced. Whether prescribing opium or thalidomide, aspirin or antidepressants, doctors have persistently failed to test their favourite ideas - often with catastrophic results. From revolutionary America to Nazi Germany and modern big-pharmaceuticals, this is the unexpected story of just how bad medicine has been, and of its remarkably recent effort to improve. It is the history of well-meaning doctors misled by intuition, of the startling human cost of their mistakes and of the exceptional individuals who have helped make things better. Alarming and optimistic, Taking the Medicine is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why to trust the pills they swallow.

Taking Medicine
Taking Medicine

Author: Liz Gogerly

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780778741145

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Provides information about the different types of medicines and how to take them safely.

Make Your Medicine Safe
Make Your Medicine Safe

Author: Jay S. Cohen

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780380790753

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Based on more than eight years of research, Dr. Cohen offers vital advice on how to reduce dosages to prevent reactions, tells which commonly used drugs often cause side effects, provides guidelines on choosing a particular drug, and lists effective dosage recommendations for over 150 prescription and nonprescription medications.

Take Your Medicine
Take Your Medicine

Author: Pamela Crane

Publisher: Rockin' C Reads

Published: 2024-07-23

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1940662427

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USA TODAY bestselling author Pamela Crane brings her trademark twists to laugh-out-loud women's fiction in this unputdownable new novel. Doused with humor, fortified with women empowerment, and starring an irresistibly quirky leading lady, Lessons in Chemistry meets Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine as one woman refuses orders to take her medicine (like a man) and overthrows convention instead. When Sam Stanton’s father dies from prescription complications, she pulls up her big-girl undies and demands to hold the drug company responsible. As her father always said, if you want to take down the man, you’ve got to fight like one. So she converts her great room into a greenhouse and becomes the first holistic advice columnist to challenge modern medicine. But it’s 1970, and Sam’s readers are wary to accept health advice from anyone but a man. Except one person takes an obsessive interest in Sam’s herbal remedies: Thomas Cook, her pharmaceutical adversary with more money than J. Paul Getty, and a reach long enough to squash Sam’s unconventional ways…like the way she cures marital dry spells with horny goat weed—it’s not called that for nothing! But Sam is about to dose him with a tough pill to swallow: her column is upheaving the medical industry, along with women’s roles in it. Thomas isn’t the only jilted ego out to get Sam as her old flame reemerges, bringing a warning. When a disturbing detail mysteriously surfaces about her father’s death, she becomes a target scandalized, risking everything she’s spoken out to save. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: "If there's one book you absolutely must read, this is it. Hilarious, original, and page-turning entertainment, I laughed until I cried and cried until I laughed. Every woman (and man, if he knows what's good for him) must read this." - reader review ★★★★★ "Superbly written, deliciously feminist, and darkly witty! It's a whole new genre of women's fiction blended with mystery that we've been waiting for." - reader review ★★★★★

Choose Your Medicine
Choose Your Medicine

Author: Lewis A. Grossman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0190612770

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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.

A Short History of Medicine
A Short History of Medicine

Author: Erwin H. Ackerknecht

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1421419556

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A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay. Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine. Covering the broad sweep of discoveries from parasitic worms to bacilli and x-rays, and highlighting physicians and scientists from Hippocrates and Galen to Pasteur, Koch, and Roentgen, Ackerknecht narrates Western and Eastern civilization’s work at identifying and curing disease. He follows these discoveries from the library to the bedside, hospital, and laboratory, illuminating how basic biological sciences interacted with clinical practice over time. But his story is more than one of laudable scientific and therapeutic achievement. Ackerknecht also points toward the social, ecological, economic, and political conditions that shape the incidence of disease. Improvements in health, Ackerknecht argues, depend on more than laboratory knowledge: they also require that we improve the lives of ordinary men and women by altering social conditions such as poverty and hunger. This revised and expanded edition includes a new foreword and concluding biographical essay by Charles E. Rosenberg, Ackerknecht’s former student and a distinguished historian of medicine. A new bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer explores recent scholarship in the history of medicine.

Ten Drugs
Ten Drugs

Author: Thomas Hager

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1683355318

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“The stories are skillfully told and entirely entertaining . . . An expert, mostly feel-good book about modern medicine” from the award-winning author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this remarkable, century-spanning history, and you can trace the evolution of our culture and the practice of medicine. Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book. “[An] absorbing new book.” —The New York Times Book Review “[A] well-written and engaging chronicle.” —The Wall Street Journal “Lucidly informative and compulsively readable.” —Publishers Weekly “Entertaining [and] insightful.” —Booklist “Well-written, well-researched and fascinating to read Ten Drugs provides an insightful look at how drugs have shaped modern medical practices. Towards the end of the book Hager writes that he ‘came away surprised by some of the things he had learned.’ I had the very same reaction.” —Penny Le Couteur, coauthor of Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

The Pegan Diet
The Pegan Diet

Author: Dr. Mark Hyman

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0316537101

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Twelve-time New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD, presents his unique Pegan diet—including meal plans, recipes, and shopping lists. For decades, the diet wars have pitted advocates for the low-carb, high-fat paleo diet against advocates of the exclusively plant-based vegan diet and dozens of other diets leaving most of us bewildered and confused. For those of us on the sidelines, trying to figure out which approach is best has been nearly impossible—both extreme diets have unique benefits and drawbacks. But how can it be, we've asked desperately, that our only options are bacon and butter three times a day or endless kale salads? How do we eat to reverse disease, optimal health, longevity and performance. How do we eat to reverse climate change? There must be a better way! Fortunately, there is. With The Pegan Diet's food-is-medicine approach, Mark Hyman explains how to take the best aspects of the paleo diet (good fats, limited refined carbs, limited sugar) and combine them with the vegan diet (lots and lots of fresh, healthy veggies) to create a delicious diet that is not only good for your brain and your body, but also good for the planet. Featuring thirty recipes and plenty of infographics illustrating the concepts, The Pegan Diet offers a balanced and easy-to-follow approach to eating that will help you get, and stay, fit, healthy, focused, and happy—for life.