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Therapeutic revolutions :

(Number (ISBN

022639073X

(Number (ISBN

022639087X

(Number (ISBN

9780226390734

(Number (ISBN

9780226390871

Erroneous ISBN

9780226390901

Title Proper

Therapeutic revolutions :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

pharmaceuticals and social change in the twentieth century /

First Statement of Responsibility

editors, Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

321 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

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Includes index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Medicine made modern by medicines / Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- Futures and their uses: antibiotics and therapeutic revolutions / Scott H. Podolsky and Anne Kveim Lie -- Reconceiving the pill: from revolutionary therapeutic to lifestyle drug / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- Magic bullet in the head? psychiatric revolutions and their aftermath / Nicolas Henckes -- Revolutionary markets? approaching therapeutic innovation and change through the lens of West German IMS health data, 1959-1980 / Nils Kessel and Christian Bonah -- Recurring revolutions? tuberculosis treatments in the era of antibiotics / Janina Kehr and Flurin Condrau -- Pharmaceutical geographies: mapping the boundaries of the therapeutic revolution / Jeremy A. Greene -- After McKeown: the changing roles of biomedicine, public health, and economic growth in mortality declines / Paul Farmer, Matthew Basilico, and Luke Messac -- Chemotherapy in the shadow of antiretrovirals: the ambiguities of hope as seen in an African cancer ward / Julie Livingston -- Volatility, speculation, and therapeutic revolutions in Nigerian drug markets / Kristin Peterson -- Therapeutic evolution or revolution? metaphors and their consequences / David S. Jones -- A therapeutic revolution revisited / Charles E. Rosenberg.

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When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: back then we had few effective remedies, now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight disease, from antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids to anticancer agents. This collection challenges the historical accuracy of this revolutionary narrative and offers instead a more nuanced account of the process of therapeutic innovation and the relationships between the development of medicines and social change. These assembled histories and ethnographies span three continents and use the lived experiences of physicians and patients, consumers and providers, and marketers and regulators to reveal the tensions between universal claims of therapeutic knowledge and the actual ways they have been used and understood in specific sites, from postwar West Germany pharmacies to twenty-first century Nigerian street markets. By asking us to rethink a story we thought we knew, "Therapeutic Revolutions" offers invaluable insights to historians, anthropologists, and social scientists of medicine.

International Standard Book Number

9780226390901

Parallel Title

Pharmaceuticals and social change in the twentieth century

Therapie

Pharmaceutical industry-- Social aspects.

Therapeutics-- Social aspects.

Drug Industry-- history.

Drug Therapy-- history.

History, 20th Century.

Social Change.

Arzneimittel

Medizin

Pharmaceutical industry-- Social aspects.

Number

Edition

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Book number

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Condrau, Flurin

Greene, Jeremy A.,1974-

Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel

Date of Transaction

20200822102250.0

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[Book]

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