Biographies of Remedies. Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures

Contributors Godelieve van Heteren Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra Tilli Tansey: Introduction 1 Virginia Berridge: Changing places: Illicit drugs, medicines, tobacco and nicotine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 2 Frank Huisman: Pharmacists, druggists and the spirit of Thorbecke: The shaping of the Dutch pharmacy, 1865-c.1920 3 Rein Vos: The 'Dutch drugstore' as an attempt to reshape pharmaceutical practice: The conflict between ethical and commercial pharmacy in Dutch cultures of medicines 4 Stuart Anderson: Community pharmacy in Great Britain: Mediation at the boundary between professional and lay care 1920 to 1995 5 Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra: Homoeopathy and its concern for purity: The Dutch case in the early-twentieth century 6 Nelly Oudshoorn: Drugs for healthy people: The culture of testing hormonal contraceptives for women and men 7 Kate Fisher: Contrasting cultures of contraception: Birth control clinics and the working-classes in Britain between the wars 8 Lara Marks: 'Public spirited and enterprising volunteers': The Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control and the British clinical trials of the contraceptive pill, 1959-1973 9 Willem de Blecourt: 'Hygienic articles, patent medicines and rubber goods': Markets and meanings in early twentieth century Netherlands 10 Alan Yoshioka: Streptomycin in postwar Britain: A cultural history of a miracle drug 11 Toine Pieters: About media, audiences and marketing medicines: The interferons 12 Vivien Walsh & Jordan Goodman: The billion dollar molecule: Taxol in historical and theoretical perspective 13 Godelieve van Heteren: Afterword: Remedies: Who Cares? Remedies, care and cultures of healing in the twentieth century Index