Therapeutic revolutions pharmaceuticals and social change in the twentieth century / editors, Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
| Other author | Greene, Jeremy A., 1974- |
| Other author | Condrau, Flurin. |
| Other author | Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. |
| Description | 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Medicine made modern by medicines / Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- Futures and their uses: antibiotics and therapeutic revolutions / Scott H. Podolsky and Anne Kveim Lie -- Reconceiving the pill: from revolutionary therapeutic to lifestyle drug / Elizabeth Siegel Watkins -- Magic bullet in the head? psychiatric revolutions and their aftermath / Nicolas Henckes -- Revolutionary markets? approaching therapeutic innovation and change through the lens of West German IMS health data, 1959-1980 / Nils Kessel and Christian Bonah -- Recurring revolutions? tuberculosis treatments in the era of antibiotics / Janina Kehr and Flurin Condrau -- Pharmaceutical geographies: mapping the boundaries of the therapeutic revolution / Jeremy A. Greene -- After McKeown: the changing roles of biomedicine, public health, and economic growth in mortality declines / Paul Farmer, Matthew Basilico, and Luke Messac -- Chemotherapy in the shadow of antiretrovirals: the ambiguities of hope as seen in an African cancer ward / Julie Livingston -- Volatility, speculation, and therapeutic revolutions in Nigerian drug markets / Kristin Peterson -- Therapeutic evolution or revolution? metaphors and their consequences / David S. Jones -- A therapeutic revolution revisited / Charles E. Rosenberg. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016018233 |
| ISBN | 9780226390734 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780226390871 (pbk. : alk. paper) |