| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History. Ed. by Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-8300-9. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-8301-6.)
For many years the field of the history of medicine has utilized social analysis focused on aspects of class, race, and gender to illuminate the changing landscape of health care in the United States. In recent years a new focus— the postwar pharmaceutical enterprise—has emerged. Medicating Modern America demonstrates the value of this new pharmaceutical history.	1
Medicating Modern America is composed of eight essays that examine significant classes of prescription medicines introduced since World War II: antibiotics, mood stabilizers, hormone replacements, oral contraceptives, stimulants, tranquilizers, statins, and Viagra. In their provocative introduction, the editors justify this scholarship: With Americans paying more than $200 billion in 2005 for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. The popularity of prescription drugs in recent decades has reframed interactions between doctors and patients, making prescription-writing and pill-taking an integral part of medical practice and everyday life. (p. 1)	. . .

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