Therapeutic Revolutions
Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: back then we had few effective remedies, now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight disease, from antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids to anticancer agents. This collection challenges the historical accuracy of this revolutionary narrative and offers instead a more nuanced account of the process of therapeutic innovation and the relationships between the development of medicines and social change. These assembled histories and ethnographies span three continents and use the lived e…
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Weitere Autoren: Condrau, Flurin (Hrsg.) / Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-226-39087-1
- EAN: 9780226390871
- Produktnummer: 19706874
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H15.5 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.9 cm 458 g
- Gewicht: 458
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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