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Choose Your Medicine by Lewis A. Grossman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Lewis A. Grossman

Current price: $42.50
Choose Your Medicine by Lewis A. Grossman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Choose Your Medicine by Lewis A. Grossman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Choose Your Medicine by Lewis A. Grossman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Lewis A. Grossman

Current price: $42.50
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A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States, 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. Throughout American history, the medical establishment has successfully backed laws limiting the range of treatments available to patients. The country's history is also, however, brimming with social movements that have condemned such restrictions as violations of fundamental American liberties. This fierce conflict is one of the defining features of the social history of medicine in the United States. In Choose Your Medicine, Lewis A. Grossman presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American health policy, law, and regulation from the Revolution through the Trump Era. Grossman grounds his analysis in historical examplesranging from unschooled supporters of botanical medicine in the early nineteenth century to sophisticated cancer patient advocacy groups in the twenty-first. He vividly describes how activists and lawyers have resisted a wide variety of legal constraints on therapeutic choice, including medicallicensing statutes, FDA limitations on unapproved drugs and alternative remedies, abortion restrictions, and prohibitions against medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide. Grossman also considers the relationship between these campaigns for desired treatments and widespread opposition tostate-compelled health measures such as vaccines and face masks. From the streets of San Francisco to the US Supreme Court, Choose Your Medicine examines an underexplored theme of American history, politics, and law that is more relevant today than ever. | Choose Your Medicine by Lewis A. Grossman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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