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. Ed(S): Greene, Jeremy A.; Condrau, Flurin; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel - Therapeutic Revolutions - 9780226390734 - V9780226390734
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Therapeutic Revolutions

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Description for Therapeutic Revolutions Hardback. Editor(s): Greene, Jeremy A.; Condrau, Flurin; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; MBS; MMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226390734
SKU
V9780226390734
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About . Ed(S): Greene, Jeremy A.; Condrau, Flurin; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
Jeremy A. Greene is professor of medicine and the history of medicine and the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease and Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine. Flurin Condrau is professor and director ... Read more

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