Book ID: CBB001033393

Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950 (2010)

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Gradmann, Christoph (Editor)
Simon, Jonathan (Editor)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xiv + 266 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Löwy, Ilana (2011) Review of "Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950". Medical History (p. 267). unapi

Review Quirke, Viviane (2012) Review of "Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 470-472). unapi

Review Kreuder-Sonnen, Katharina (2012) Review of "Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950". NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 112-114). unapi

Essay Review Haines, Gregory (2012) Setting the Standards for Medicines. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 211-217). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Pruell, C-R. (2010) Paul Ehrlich's Standardization of Serum: Wertbestimmung and Its Meaning for Twentieth-Century Biomedicine. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Huntelmann, A. C. (2010) Evaluation as a Practical Technique of Administration: The Regulation and Standardization of Diphtheria Serum. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Hardy, A. I. (2010) From Diphtheria to Tetanus: The Development of Evaluation Methods for Sera in Imperial Germany. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Gachelin, G. (2010) The Construction of a Culture of Standardization at the Institut Pasteur (1885--1900). In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Simon, J. (2010) Quality Control and the Politics of Serum Production in France. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Kaba, M. (2010) “The Geneva Serum Is Excellent!” Autonomy and Isolation in Swiss Cantons during the Early Years of Diphtheria Serum: The Case of Geneva. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Mazumdar, P. (2010) The State, the Serum Institutes and the League of Nations. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Hardy, A. (2010) Questions of Quality: The Danish State Serum Institute, Thorvald Madsen and Biological Standardization. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Worboys, M. (2010) “The Wright Way”: The Production and Standardization of Therapeutic Vaccines in Britain, 1902--1913. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Gaudillière, J-P. (2010) The Visible Industrialist: Standards and the Manufacture of Sex Hormones. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Bonah, C. (2010) “We Need for Digitalis Preparations What the State Has Established for Serumtherapy ...”: from Collecting Plants to International Standardization: The Case of Strophanthin, 1900--1938. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Lindner, U. (2010) Changing Regulations and Risk Assessments. National Responses to the Introduction of Inactivated Polio Vaccine. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

Chapter Cambrosio, A. (2010) Standardization before Biomedicine: On Early Forms of Regulatory Objectivity. In: Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890--1950. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jane Freebody
Womack, Jeffrey
Guijarro Mora, Victor
Murmann, J. P.
Westermann, Andrea
Tatu, Laurent
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social History of Medicine
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Journal of Evolutionary Economics
History of Psychiatry
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Routledge
McGill-Queen's University Press
Liverpool University Press
Chronos
Concepts
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Psychiatry
Medicine
Cross-national comparison
Neuroses; neurotic disorders
Workhouses
People
Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis
Walter, Johann Gotlieb
Steffens, Henrich
Koch, Robert
Wagner-Jauregg, Julius von
Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas von
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Germany
France
Switzerland
Great Britain
United States
Europe
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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