A social history of medicines in the twentieth century : to be taken three times a day

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A social history of medicines in the twentieth century : to be taken three times a day

John K. Crellin

Pharmaceutical Products Press, c2004

  • hard : alk. paper
  • soft : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents of Works

  • 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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