[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].
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...
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| Superior document: | Clio medica ; 66 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [2002] |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (iii, 295 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Godelieve Van Heteren , Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Tilli Tansey
- Changing places: Illicit drugs, medicines, tobacco and nicotine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Virginia Berridge
- Pharmacists, druggists and the spirit of Thorbecke: The shaping of Dutch pharmacy, 1865–c.1920 / Frank Huisman
- The ‘Dutch drugstore’ as an attempt to reshape pharmaceutical practice: The conflict between ethical and commercial pharmacy in Dutch cultures of medicines / Rein Vos
- Community pharmacy in Great Britain: Mediation at the boundary between professional and lay care, 1920 to 1995 / Stuart Anderson
- Homoeopathy and its concern for purity: The Dutch case in the early-twentieth century / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
- Drugs for healthy people: The culture of testing hormonal contraceptives for women and men / Nelly Oudshoorn
- Contrasting cultures of contraception: Birth control clinics and the working-classes in Britain between the wars / Kate Fisher
- ‘Public spirited and enterprising volunteers’: The Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control and the British clinical trials of the contraceptive pill, 1959–1973 / Lara Marks
- ‘Hygienic articles, patent medicines and rubber goods’: Markets and meanings in early-twentieth century Netherlands. / Willem de Blécourt
- Streptomycin in postwar Britain: A cultural history of a miracle drug / Alan Yoshioka
- About media, audiences and marketing medicines: The interferons / Toine Pieters
- The billion dollar molecule: Taxol in historical and theoretical perspective / Vivien Walsh and Jordan Goodman
- Afterword: Who Cares? Remedies, care and cultures of healing in the twentieth century / Godelieve Van Heteren.