A social history of medicines in the twentieth century : to be taken three times a day /
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New York :
Pharmaceutical Products Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Medicines for weakness : 1900 to c. 1950
- Weakness and social conditions
- Prevention and treatment
- The medicines
- Pharmacological effects, "cascades," and social validation
- Authority and gatekeeping : 1900 to c. 1950
- Authority and patients' faith
- Authority and prescription medicines
- Authority, gatekeeping, and responsibilities
- Authority: the druggists' role
- Certainty ? Maybe, maybe not : 1950 to 2000
- The challenges of change
- Validation, rejection, ambivalence, and four themes
- Theme 1 : accommodating new medicines
- Theme 2 : patients' dependence and professional gatekeeping
- Hope amid uncertainty : 1950 to 2000
- Theme 3 : public confidence : challenges and responses
- Theme 4 : changing relationships : from compliance to concordance
- Epilogue . Do we need a "new" therapeutics ?