| Description |
xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 -- |
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Theme 4: changing relationships: from compliance to concordance -- Epilogue. Do we need a new therapeutics? |
| Subject |
Drugs -- North America -- History -- 20th century.
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Drugs. |
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North America. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Drugs -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Drug utilization -- North America -- History -- 20th century.
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Drug utilization. |
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Drug utilization -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Medication. |
| ISBN |
0789018446 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0789018454 soft alkaline paper |
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