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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Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Malthus, medicine, & morality

'Malthusianism' after 1798

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Engels | 232 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2000

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Andreas-Holger Maehle Drugs on trial: experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century

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Engels | 376 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 1999

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Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Ashes to ashes: the history of smoking and health

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Engels | 244 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 1998

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P.R. Fleming A short history of cardiology

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Engels | 241 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 1997

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The science and culture of nutrition, 1840-1940

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Engels | 344 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 1995

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Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine The history of medical education in Britain

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Engels | 379 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 1995

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