A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century:To Be Taken Three Times a Day

摘要

More than a simple chronology of drug development and corporate events in the pharmaceutical industry,A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century looks at the societal reasoning and ramifications behind modern health and therapeutics,examining issues ranging from folk remedies to modern drug discovery.The book has been written for a wide audience,or as author John Crellin describes it,"for everyone who has ever wondered how they came to be taking one medicine rather than another,either as self-care or a doctors prescription."To be more accurate,however,the book should really include some mention of the fact that the author focuses almost exclusively on medicines from Britain,Canada,and the United States.