Greene, Jeremy Alan (Editor)
Condrau, Flurin (Editor)
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel (Editor)
University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2016
Language: English
Physical Details: 320 pages
When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight disease, from antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids to anticancer agents. This collection challenges the historical accuracy of this revolutionary narrative and offers instead a more nuanced account of the process of therapeutic innovation and the relationships between the development of medicines and social change. These assembled histories and ethnographies span three continents and use the lived experiences of physicians and patients, consumers and providers, and marketers and regulators to reveal the tensions between universal claims of therapeutic knowledge and the actual ways these claims have been used and understood in specific sites, from postwar West Germany pharmacies to twenty-first century Nigerian street markets. By asking us to rethink a story we thought we knew, Therapeutic Revolutions offers invaluable insights to historians, anthropologists, and social scientists of medicine.
...MoreReview Nicolas Rasmussen (2018) Review of "Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 402-404).
Review James H. Mills (2019) Review of "Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (p. 101172).
Review Dominique Tobbell (2018) Review of "Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 224-226).
Review Matthew Smith (2018) Review of "Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 124-126).
Chapter Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (2016) Reconceiving the Pill: From Revolutionary Therapeutic to Lifestyle Drug. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Scott H. Podolsky; Anne Kveim Lie (2016) Futures and their Uses Antibiotics: and Therapeutic Revolutions. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Kristin Peterson (2016) Volatility, Speculation, and Therapeutic Revolutions in Nigerian Drug Markets. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Paul Farmer; Matthew Basilico; Luke Messac (2016) After McKeown: The Changing Roles of Biomedicine, Public Health, and Economic Growth in Mortality Declines. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Charles E. Rosenberg (2016) A Therapeutic Revolution Revisited. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter David S. Jones (2016) Therapeutic Evolution or Revolution?: Metaphors and Their Consequences. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Janina Kehr; Flurin Condrau (2016) Recurring Revolutions?: Tuberculosis Treatments in the Era of Antibiotics. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Jeremy A. Greene (2016) Pharmaceutical Geographies: Mapping the Boundaries of the Therapeutic Revolution. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Julie Livingston (2016) Chemotherapy in the Shadow of Antiretrovirals: The Ambiguities of Hope as Seen in an African Cancer Ward. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Nils Kessel; Christian Bonah (2016) Revolutionary Markets?: Approaching Therapeutic Innovation and Change through the Lens of West German IMS Health Data, 1959– 1980. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Nicolas Henckes (2016) Magic Bullet in the Head?: Psychiatric Revolutions and Their Aftermath. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
Chapter Jeremy A. Greene; Flurin Condrau; Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (2016) Introduction: Medicine Made Modern by Medicines. In: Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century.
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