Biographies of Remedies

ISBN 10: 904201587X / ISBN 13: 9789042015876

Published by Brill, 2002

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Synopsis:

At a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in which they emerged, the social circumstances from which they sprang, and the social effects that remedies engendered are treated in depth in this collection of essays. They address the historical variety of remedies as economic, social, and cultural objects and discuss their particular forms of production and distribution. Drawing predominantly on British and Dutch cases, the curious ‘biographies’ of modern drugs like streptomycin, taxol and interferon are reviewed, the shifting boundaries between medicines and toxic substances are explored, and remedial strategies such as contraceptives are scrutinised. This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in 1998, explores cultures of remedies from a comparative perspective.

About the Author: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra is professor of social and cultural history at the University of Amsterdam and is particularly interested in the social history of medicine, homeopathy and psychiatry in the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, and witchcraft, deviance and tolerance in the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.

Godelieve van Heteren is a university lecturer in the history of medicine at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. She has a special interest in the comparative history of European healthcare systems and in the history of Dutch colonial medicine in the Dutch East Indies between 1870-1942.

Tilli Tansey is historian of modern medical science at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL and convenor of the History of Twentieth century Medicine Group. Her research interests include the history of the modern medical research laboratory, focusing especially on physiology and pharmacology.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Biographies of Remedies
Publisher: Brill
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: HRD
Condition: New