Prescribing by numbers : drugs and the definition of disease / Jeremy A. Greene.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

xv, 318 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-308) and index.

Releasing the flood waters : the development and promotion of Diuril -- Shrinking the symptom, growing the disease : hypertension after Diuril -- Finding the hidden diabetic : Orinase creates a new market -- Risk and the symptom : the trials of Orinase -- The fall and rise of a risk factor : cholesterol and its remedies -- Know your number : cholesterol and the threshold of pathology.