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

By: Publication details: New York : Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004.Description: xi, 340 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0789018446 (hard : alk. paper)
  • 0789018454 (soft : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615/.1/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • RM45 .C74 2004
NLM classification:
  • QV 711 AA1
Online resources:
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 --
Theme 4: changing relationships: from compliance to concordance -- Epilogue. Do we need a new therapeutics?
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks RM45 .C74 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000724285

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --

Theme 4: changing relationships: from compliance to concordance -- Epilogue. Do we need a new therapeutics?

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