Graham Dutfield, That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Journal: Prometheus
Year: 2023

Drug production as 'industry' becomes practical only with the era of mass manufacture, so this history is relatively short, perhaps 150 years.Dutfield covers it in detail, with an engaging narrative flow, and with specific important cases and examples highlighted.To a great extent, the history of the pharma industry complements and runs parallel to modern medicine, with the rapid development and deployment of scientific research methods, mainly beginning in the mid-nineteenth century.Florence Ni