| Description |
xiv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Content |
text |
| Media |
unmediated |
| Carrier |
volume |
| Series |
Science, technology, and medicine in modern history.
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| Note |
"European Science Foundation Research Networking Programme DRUGS." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Secrets, bureaucracy and the public: drug regulation in Prussia in the 19th century / Volker Hess -- Making Salvarsan. experimental therapy and the development and marketing of Salvarsan at the interface between science, clinic, industry and public health / Axel Hüntelmann -- Professional and industrial regulation in France and Germany: the trajectories of plant extracts / Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- Making risks visible: the science, politics and regulation of adverse drug reactions / Harry Marks -- Regulating drugs, regulating diseases: consumerism and the U.S. tolbutamide controversy / Jeremy Greene -- Thalidomide, drug safety regulation and the British Pharmaceutical Industry: the case of Imperial Chemical Industries / Viviane Quirke -- What's in a pill? on the informational enrichment of anti-cancer drugs / Alberto Cambrosio, Peter Keating, and Andrei Mogoutov -- Treating health risks or putting healthy women at risk: controversies around chemoprevention of breast cancer / Ilana Lowy -- AZT and Drug Regulatory Reform in the late Twentieth century US / Donna messner -- Professional, industrial and court regulation of drugs: the 1953 Stalinon case and Pharmaceutical Reform in postwar France / Christian Bonah -- Managing double binds in the pharmaceutical prescription market: the case of Halcion / Toine Pieters and Stephen Snelders -- Pharmaceutical patent law in-the-making: opposition and legal action by states, citizens and generics laboratories in Brazil and India / Maurice Cassier. |
| Subject(s) |
Drugs -- Standards.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Quality control.
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Drugs -- Law and legislation -- History -- 19th century.
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Drugs -- Law and legislation -- History -- 20th century.
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| Alternate Author |
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, 1957-
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Hess, Volker.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
40021781878 |
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