Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Biographies of remedies: drugs, medicines and contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American healing cultures

This collection of essays addresses the historical variety of remedies as economic, social, and cultural objects and discusses 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...

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Engels | 295 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2002

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