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Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft

Lungenheilanstalt und Patientenschicksal : Sozialgeschichte der Tuberkulose in Deutschland und England im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert / Flurin Condrau.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society

Tuberculosis then and now : perspectives on the history of an infectious disease / edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys.

Geschlechterverhältnisse in Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik

Tuberkulose und Geschlecht : Heilbehandlungen für Lungenkranke zwischen 1890 und 1914 / Flurin Condrau.

<p>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, 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 they 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.</p>

321 pages : black and white illustrations, charts ; 23 cm

Therapeutic revolutions : pharmaceuticals and social change in the twentieth century / editors, Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

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Condrau, Flurin

Works

Lungenheilanstalt und Patientenschicksal : Sozialgeschichte der Tuberkulose in Deutschland und England im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert / Flurin Condrau.

Tuberculosis then and now : perspectives on the history of an infectious disease / edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys.

Tuberkulose und Geschlecht : Heilbehandlungen für Lungenkranke zwischen 1890 und 1914 / Flurin Condrau.

Therapeutic revolutions : pharmaceuticals and social change in the twentieth century / editors, Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

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Condrau, Flurin

Works

Lungenheilanstalt und Patientenschicksal : Sozialgeschichte der Tuberkulose in Deutschland und England im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert / Flurin Condrau.

Tuberculosis then and now : perspectives on the history of an infectious disease / edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys.

Tuberkulose und Geschlecht : Heilbehandlungen für Lungenkranke zwischen 1890 und 1914 / Flurin Condrau.

Therapeutic revolutions : pharmaceuticals and social change in the twentieth century / editors, Jeremy A. Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

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