[Biographies of remedies] : : [drugs, medicines and contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American healing cultures] / / [by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, G. M. van Heteren and Tilli Tansey].

• Superior document: Clio medica ; 66
• VerfasserIn: Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke,; Heteren, G. M. van,; Tansey, E. M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Heteren, G. M. van,; Tansey, E. M.,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [2002]
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (iii, 295 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.

At a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in wh...