TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crellin,J.K.
TI  - A social history of medicines in the twentieth century: to be taken three times a day 
SN  - 0789018446 (hard : alk. paper)
AV  - RM45 .C74 2004
U1  - 615/.1/0973 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pharmaceutical Products Press
KW  - Drugs
KW  - North America
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Drug utilization
N1  - 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?
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003012397.html
ER  -