A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century
Subtitle: To Be Taken Three Times a Day
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780789018458
Subjects: History of medicine; Pharmacy / dispensing; Social history; Medical / Nursing; Great Britain; Medical; North America; Pharmacy; Drugs; History; 20th century; Drug utilization
First sentence: This book examines the social, medical, and pharmaceutical influences that shaped the everyday availability and usage of medicines in the twentieth century.
Description: Takes the reader through a complexity of issues to explore why, throughout the twentieth century, physicians and sick people on both sides of the Atlantic prescribed or chose a particular medicine--perhaps validated it--often when others felt it was of little or no value or remained uncertain of it.