A social history of medicines in the twentieth century : to be taken three times a day / John K. Crellin.

Author/creator Crellin, J. K.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004.
Descriptionxi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects
Drug Prescriptions--history. --Canada.
Drug Prescriptions--history. --Great Britain.
Drug Prescriptions--history. --United States.
Drug Therapy--history. --Canada.
Drug Therapy--history. --Great Britain.
Drug Therapy--history. --United States.
History, 20th Century--Canada.
History, 20th Century--Great Britain.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Social Change--history. --Canada.
Social Change--history. --Great Britain.
Social Change--history. --United States.

Contents The big canvas: issues and context -- Some key questions -- Social validation of medicines -- Regionalism in the story of medicines -- Organization of the book -- Rural scenes -- Public/community health -- Colonialism -- Writing the story -- Prelude: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries -- An early search for new remedies -- Interfaces: conventional medicines, self-care, and commercialism -- Weakness and social conditions -- Prevention and treatment -- The medicines -- Pharmacological effects, cascades and social validation -- Authority and patients faith -- Authority and prescription medicines -- Authority, gatekeeping, and responsibilities -- Authority: the druggists role -- The challenges of change -- Validation, rejection, ambivalence, and four themes -- Theme 1: accommodating new medicines -- Theme 2: patients dependence and professional gatekeeping -- Theme 3: public confidence: challenges and responses --
Contents Theme 4: changing relationships: from compliance to concordance -- Epilogue. Do we need a new therapeutics?
Local noteLaupus-Retained for historical purposes.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003012397
ISBN0789018446 (hard : alk. paper) :
ISBN0789018454 (soft : alk. paper)
Stock number1234227 QBI