03821nam 22006375 450 991015164240332120230126214811.00-226-39087-X10.7208/9780226390901(CKB)3710000000948614(MiAaPQ)EBC4519403(StDuBDS)EDZ0001588421(DE-B1597)524235(OCoLC)963934712(DE-B1597)9780226390901(EXLCZ)99371000000094861420200424h20162016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierTherapeutic Revolutions Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century /Flurin Condrau, Jeremy A. Greene, Elizabeth Siegel WatkinsChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (328 pages)Includes index.0-226-39073-X 0-226-39090-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Medicine Made Modern by Medicines -- 1. Futures and their Uses -- 2. Reconceiving the Pill -- 3. Magic Bullet in the Head? -- 4. Revolutionary Markets? -- 5. Recurring Revolutions? -- 6. Pharmaceutical Geographies -- 7. After McKeown -- 8. Chemotherapy in the Shadow of Antiretrovirals -- 9. Volatility, Speculation, and Therapeutic Revolutions in Nigerian Drug Markets -- 10. Therapeutic Evolution or Revolution? -- 11. A Therapeutic Revolution Revisited -- Contributors -- IndexWhen asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight disease, from antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids to anticancer agents. This collection challenges the historical accuracy of this revolutionary narrative and offers instead a more nuanced account of the process of therapeutic innovation and the relationships between the development of medicines and social change. These assembled histories and ethnographies span three continents and use the lived experiences of physicians and patients, consumers and providers, and marketers and regulators to reveal the tensions between universal claims of therapeutic knowledge and the actual ways these claims have been used and understood in specific sites, from postwar West Germany pharmacies to twenty-first century Nigerian street markets. By asking us to rethink a story we thought we knew, Therapeutic Revolutions offers invaluable insights to historians, anthropologists, and social scientists of medicine. Pharmaceutical industrySocial aspectsTherapeuticsSocial aspectsbiomedicine.consumer history.history of medicine.history of science.medical anthropology.modern medicine.pharmaceutical industry.prescription drugs.therapeutic revolution.twentieth century history.Pharmaceutical industrySocial aspects.TherapeuticsSocial aspects.303.483Condrau Flurin, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtGreene Jeremy A., edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtWatkins Elizabeth Siegel, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910151642403321Therapeutic Revolutions2281600UNINA