Author: Jeremy A. Greene
The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of
chronic disease - diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any overt signs of illness develop - that arose in concert with a set of safe, effective, and highly marketable prescription drugs. In Prescribing
by Numbers, physician-historian Jeremy A. Greene examines the mechanisms by which drugs and chronic disease categories define one another within medical research, clinical practice, and pharmaceutical marketing, and he explores how this interaction has profoundly altered the experience, politics, ethics,
and economy of health in…
