Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America

Jeremy A. Greene is an assistant professor of the history of science at Harvard University and an instructor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Department of Medicine of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease, also published by Johns Hopkins. Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is a professor, vice chair, and director of graduate studies in the History of Health Sciences Program at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America and On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970, both also published by Johns Hopkins, and the coeditor of Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History.