Acceptable Risk Contributor(s): Cook, Robin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425151867 ISBN-13: 9780425151860 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: February 1996 Annotation: As the bestselling master of medical suspense, Robin Cook has always always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risks, he confronts one of the most provocative isssues of our time--personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. "Takes on the ethics involved in such personality-altering drugs as Prozac".--Publishers Weekly. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Medical - Fiction | Thrillers - Medical - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 830 |
Series: Medical Thriller |
Physical Information: 1.12" H x 4.19" W x 6.75" (0.41 lbs) 400 pages |
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Publisher Description: Robin Cook has always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risk, he confronts one of the most provocative issues of our time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. Neuroscientist Edward Armstrong has managed to isolate a psychotropic drug with a strange and dark history--one that may account for the public hysteria during the Salem witch trials. In a brilliant designer-drug transformation, it is developed into an antidepressant with truly startling therapeutic capabilities. But who can be sure the drug is safe for consumers? Who defines the boundaries of normal human behavior? And if the drug's side effects are proven to be dangerous--even terrifying--how far will the medical community go to alter their standards of...Acceptable Risk. |