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- catalog abstract "At a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in which they emerged, the social circumstances from which they sprang, and the social effects that remedies engendered are treated in depth in this collection of essays. They address the historical variety of remedies as economic, social, and cultural objects and discuss their particular forms of production and distribution. Drawing predominantly on British and Dutch cases, the curious "biographies" of modern drugs like streptomycin, taxol and interferon are reviewed, the shifting boundaries between medicines and toxic substances are explored, and remedial strategies such as contraceptives are scrutinised. This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in 1998, explores.".
- catalog contributor b12670505.
- catalog contributor b12670506.
- catalog contributor b12670507.
- catalog coverage "Netherlands".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "At a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in which they emerged, the social circumstances from which they sprang, and the social effects that remedies engendered are treated in depth in this collection of essays. They address the historical variety of remedies as economic, social, and cultural objects and discuss their particular forms of production and distribution. Drawing predominantly on British and Dutch cases, the curious "biographies" of modern drugs like streptomycin, taxol and interferon are reviewed, the shifting boundaries between medicines and toxic substances are explored, and remedial strategies such as contraceptives are scrutinised. This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in 1998, explores.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "iii, 295 p. :".
- catalog identifier "9042015772 (paper)".
- catalog identifier "904201587X (bound)".
- catalog isPartOf "Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 66.".
- catalog isPartOf "Clio medica ; 66".
- catalog isPartOf "The Wellcome series in the history of medicine".
- catalog isPartOf "Wellcome series in the history of medicine.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog spatial "Netherlands".
- catalog spatial "Netherlands.".
- catalog subject "Contraceptive Agents Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Contraceptive Agents Netherlands History.".
- catalog subject "Contraceptive Agents history Great Britain".
- catalog subject "Contraceptive Agents history Netherlands.".
- catalog subject "Contraceptive Agents history".
- catalog subject "Contraceptives Great Britain History Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Contraceptives Netherlands History Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Drugs Great Britain History Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Drugs Netherlands History Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Pharmacy Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Pharmacy Netherlands.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Pharmacy".
- catalog subject "Pharmaceutical Preparations Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Pharmaceutical Preparations Netherlands History.".
- catalog subject "Pharmaceutical Preparations history Great Britain".
- catalog subject "Pharmaceutical Preparations history Netherlands.".
- catalog subject "Pharmaceutical Preparations history".
- catalog subject "Pharmaceutical ethics History Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Pharmacy Great Britain History Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Pharmacy Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Pharmacy Netherlands History Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Pharmacy Netherlands History.".
- catalog subject "Pharmacy history Great Britain".
- catalog subject "Pharmacy history Netherlands.".
- catalog subject "Pharmacy history".
- catalog subject "QV 711 FA1 B615 2002".
- catalog subject "RS67.E85 B56 2002".
- catalog subject "W1 CL933 v.66 2002".
- catalog title "Biographies of remedies : drugs, medicines and contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American healing cultures / edited by M. Gijswijt-Hofstra, G.M. Van Hetern and E.M. Tansey.".
- catalog type "Conference proceedings. fast".
- catalog type "Congresses".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".