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Therapeutic revolutions : pharmaceuticals and social change in the twentieth century / editors, Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226390734 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226390871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9665.5 .T46 2016
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD9665.5 .T46 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001456499

Includes index.

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.

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