Informed Consumer's Pharmacy: The Essential Guide to Prescription and Over-The-Counter Drugs [Paperback]

Ellen Hodgson Brown (Author), Lynne Paige Walker (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Unlike most handbooks on drugs, this one is arranged by diseases and therapeutic classes, and outlines alternative therapies (including nondrug treatments) for a holistic approach. The result is a more coherent picture of the range of possible choices than is available in books organized alphabetically by drug name. Not everyone will be comfortable with the authors' holistic (and at times homeopathic) approach, or with their degree of skepticism about using drugs at all. Others will find it attractive for exactly these reasons. The text seems generally sound, if a bit sketchy; the references are a little sloppy at times. However, this is particularly good on drug-drug and drug-food interactions. It might be usefully supplemented by more technical drug handbooks, such as United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information for the Consumer (Consumer Reports, 1990) and USP DI, Drug Information for the Health Care Professional (USPC, 1990).
- Mary Chitty, Massachu setts Coll. of Pharmacy & Allied Health Sciences Lib., Boston
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 445 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub (March 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881845868
• ISBN-13: 978-0881845860
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,845,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ellen Brown is an attorney and the author of eleven books, including the bestselling "Nature's Pharmacy" (co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker) and "Web of Debt." She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1967 and from UCLA Law School in 1977; practiced law for ten years in Los Angeles; then spent 11 years abroad, in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, with her husband (now ex-husband) and two children. She is currently president of the Public Banking Institute, http://publicbankinginstitute.org.