Choose your medicine freedom of therapeutic choice in America / Lewis A. Grossman.

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.
Abstract "Throughout American history, lawmakers have limited the range of treatments available to patients, often with the backing of the medical establishment. 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."-- Book jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-384) and index.
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LCCN 2021913108
ISBN9780190612757 (hardcover)
ISBN0190612754 (hardcover)