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...
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Table of 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.