Biographies of Remedies

Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1577-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 66, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

At a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in which they emerged, the social circumstances from which they sprang, and the social effects that remedies engendered are treated in depth in this collection of essays. They address the historical variety of remedies as economic, social, and cultural objects and discuss their particular forms of production and distribution. Drawing predominantly on British and Dutch cases, the curious ‘biographies’ of modern drugs like streptomycin, taxol and interferon are reviewed, the shifting boundaries between medicines and toxic substances are explored, and remedial strategies such as contraceptives are scrutinised. This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in 1998, explores cultures of remedies from a comparative perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke

Heteren, G.M. van

Tansey, Tilli

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Introduction

Godelieve van Heteren, Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Tilli Tansey

Changing Places: Illicit Drugs, Medicines, Tobacco and Nicotine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Virginia Berridge

Pharmacists, Druggists and the Spirit of Thorbecke: The Shaping of the Dutch Pharmacy, 1865-c. 1920

Frank Huisman

The 'Dutch Drugstore’ as an Attempt to Reshape Pharmaceutical Practice: The Conflict between Ethical and Commercial Pharmacy in Dutch Cultures of Medicines

Rein Vos

Community Pharmacy in Great Britain: Mediation at the Boundary between Professional and Lay Care, 1920 to 1995

Stuart Anderson

Homoeopathy and Its Concern for Purity: The Dutch Case in the Early-Twentieth Century

Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

Drugs for Healthy People: The Culture of Testing Hormonal Contraceptives for Women and Men

Nelly Oudshoorn

Contrasting Cultures of Contraception: Birth Control Clinics and the Working-Classes in Britain between the Wars

Kate Fisher

'Public Spirited and Enterprising Volunteers’: The Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control and the British Clinical Trials of the Contraceptive Pill, 1959-1973

Lara Marks

Hygienic Articles, Patent Medicines and Rubber Goods’: Markets and Meanings in Early Twentieth Century Netherlands

Willem de Blécourt

“Streptomycin in Postwar Britain: A Cultural History of a Miracle Drug

Alan Yoshioka

About Media, Audiences and Marketing Medicines: The Interferons

Toine Pieters

The Billion Dollar Molecule: Taxol in Historical and Theoretical Perspective

Vivien Walsh & Jordan Goodman

Afterword. Remedies: Who Cares? Remedies, Care and Cultures of Healing in the Twentieth Century

Godelieve van Heteren

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra is professor of social and cultural history at the University of Amsterdam and is particularly interested in the social history of medicine, homeopathy and psychiatry in the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, and witchcraft, deviance and tolerance in the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.

Godelieve van Heteren is a university lecturer in the history of medicine at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. She has a special interest in the comparative history of European healthcare systems and in the history of Dutch colonial medicine in the Dutch East Indies between 1870-1942.

Tilli Tansey is historian of modern medical science at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL and convenor of the History of Twentieth century Medicine Group. Her research interests include the history of the modern medical research laboratory, focusing especially on physiology and pharmacology.