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Subject(s)

• Chemotherapy—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Diseases—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Drugs—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Diagnosis [Browse]
• Medicine—History [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Trivia and miscellanea [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• miscellanies [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-308) and index.

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction : The pharmacopoeia of risk reduction
• pt. 1. Diuril and hypertension, 1957-1977
• 1. Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril
• 2. Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril
• pt. 2. Orinase and diabetes, 1960-1980
• 3. Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market
• 4. Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase
• pt. 3. Mevacor and cholesterol, 1970-2000
• 5. The fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies
• 6. Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology
• Conclusion : the therapeutic transition
• Notes
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0801884772 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 9780801884771 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 9780801891007 ((pbk.))
• 0801891000 ((pbk.))

LCCN

2006011616

OCLC

66463589

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