A social history of medicines in the twentieth century to be taken three times a day
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 s...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
Pharmaceutical Products Press
2004
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| Online Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of contents Book review (E-STREAMS) |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 340 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0789018446 0-7890-1844-6 0789018454 0-7890-1845-4 |