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Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

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Description for Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century Paperback. Editor(s): Greene, Jeremy A.; Condrau, Flurin; Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: MBS; MMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
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

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226390871
SKU
V9780226390871
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About Jeremy Greene
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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