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McTavish Janice Rae |
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Titolo |
Pain and profits : the history of the headache and its remedies in America / / Jan R. McTavish |
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New Brunswick, N.J. : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-8135-5786-0 |
0-8135-3642-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 239 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Headache |
Headache - Treatment - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-232) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The headache and its treatment in the nineteenth century -- Free choice and free enterprise in nineteenth century American drug supply -- Doctors and the drug trade -- The remarkable synthetic drugs -- Druggists, doctors and the law -- The Bayer Company: drugs as big business -- Did the headache finally meet its match? -- The headache in the twentieth century. |
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