Perspectives on twentieth-century pharmaceuticals
By: [edited by] Viviane Quirke and Judy Slinn.
Contributors: Quirke, Viviane.; Slinn, Judy.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9783039109203
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry -- History -- 20th century; Drug Industry -- history; Drug and Narcotic Control -- history; History, 20th Century; Technology, Pharmaceutical -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Models for production and regulation : the diphtheria serum in Germany and France / Jonathan Simon and Axel C. Hüntelmann; title: Struggling for the market : strategies of Dutch pharmaceutical companies, 1880-1940 / Frank Huisman; title: Distributing penicillin : the clinic, the hero, and industrial production in Spain, 1943-1952 / María Jesús Santesmases; title: The scientist-entrepreneur or financing in pharmaceutical research : a portrait of the malariologist Werner Schulemann, 1888-1975 / Marione Hulversheidt; title: Scientists, doctors, and drug development : the history of Raymond P. Ahlquist's receptor theory, 1948-1988 / Cay-Rüdiger Prüll; title: Proposition of a model for the discussion of medications during medical encounters / Claude Richard and Marie-Therese Lussier; title: Twentieth-century American contributions to the growth of the Beecham Enterprise / Tony Corley; title: Linking research and marketing, a pharmaceutical innovation / Sergio Sismondo; title: Relieving twentieth-century excesses : the socialization of antacid and laxative uses through advertising / Manon Niquette and William J. Buxton; title: Reducing with dinitrophenol : self-medication, and the challenge of regulating a dangerous pharmaceutical before the US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act / John P. Swann; title: Charitable innovations : the political economy of thalassemia research and drug development in the United States, 1960-2000 / Dominique A. Tobbell; title: Imperfect methods and uncertain choices : the regulation and marketing of emergency contraception in the United States / Heather Munro Prescott; title: Producing ascorbic acid : how microbes transformed the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche, 1933-1953 / Beat Bøchi; title: Pharma in transition : new approaches to drug development at F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co, 1960-1980 / Michael Bürgi and Bruno J. Strasser; title: Knowledge creation dynamics and the growth of biotech firms in Quebec / Anne-Laure Saives ... [et al.].