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Author Grossman, Lewis A., 1964- author.

Title Choose your medicine : freedom of therapeutic choice in America / Lewis A. Grossman
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 400 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Storming the Bastille of Orthodoxy: The Origins of American Health Libertarianism -- 2. "The Blood-Bought Freedom of Our Venerable Sires": The Antebellum Battle for Medical Freedom -- 3. Orthodoxy and "The Other Man's Doxy": Medical Licensing and Medical Freedom in the Gilded Age -- 4. Reining In Progressive "State Medicine" -- 5. Conspiracy Theorists and Con Men: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in the "Golden Age" of Medicine -- 6. The Spirit of the '70s: Vitamins, Yogurt, and Apricot Pits -- 7. AIDS Activists, FDA Regulation, and the Amendment of America's Drug Constitution -- 8. Modern Resistance to Orthodox Medical Domination -- 9. Life, Liberty, [and the Pursuit of Happiness]: The Long Struggle for Legalization of Medical Marijuana -- 10. The Right to Be Covered: Therapeutic Choice and Health Insurance -- 11. The End: Freedom to Choose and the Right to Die
Summary Lewis A. Grossman examines the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States. He 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. The book is filled with vivid descriptions of activists and lawyers resisting a variety of government limits on therapeutic choice, including medical licensing statutes, FDA bans on unapproved drugs and alternative remedies, abortion restrictions, and prohibitions against medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide. He further considers the widespread opposition to state-compelled health measures like vaccines and face masks
Notes Also issued in print: 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021)
Subject Clinical medicine -- Decision making -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Medical laws and legislation -- United States -- History
Health attitudes -- United States -- History
Health attitudes
Medical laws and legislation
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197606582
019760658X
9780190612771
0190612770