Title: A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century
Subtitle: To Be Taken Three Times a Day
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.
Subjects: Medicine, formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Medicine, history, Social change, Drugs, History, Drug utilization, Drug Prescriptions, Drug Therapy, History of Medicine, 20th Cent, History, 20th Century