Crellin, John K.

A social history of medicines in the twentieth century : to be taken three times a day / John K. Crellin - New York : Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004 - xi, 340 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

The big canvas: issues and context -- Prelude: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries -- Medicines for weakness: 1900 to c. 1950 -- Authority and gatekeeping: 1900 to c. 1950 -- Certainty? maybe, maybe not: 1950 to 2000 -- Hope amid uncertainty: 1950 to 2000

0789018446 (hc.) RM240.99 0789018454 (sc.)


Prescriptions, Drug--history--Canada--Great Britain--United States
Drug Therapy--history--Canada--Great Britain--United States
History, 20th Century--Canada--Great Britain--United States
Social Change--history--Canada--Great Britain--United States

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