East-Side Story: The Standardisation of Psychotropic Drugs at the Charité Psychiatric Clinic, 1955--1970 (2011)
Balz, Viola (Author)
Hoheisel, Matthias (Author)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 42
Pages: 453--466
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “Standardizing Psychotropic Drugs and Drug Practices in the Twentieth Century”
Language: English
The present article illustrates the history of psychotropic drugs introduced in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1945 onwards. We begin by examining the introduction of an anti-depressant and a tranquilizer at the university psychiatric clinic, Charité, in East Berlin. On the basis of patient files, we consider the monitoring routines, altered by the use of psychotropic drugs, and the difficulties that arose when these routines were translated into existing research programs. In the 1960s, attempts to evaluate the psychiatric practice were based on psychopathology whereas at the end of the 1960s there was a shift to target symptoms.
...MoreArticle Pieters, Toine; Snelders, Stephen (2011) Standardizing Psychotropic Drugs and Drug Practices in the Twentieth Century: Paradox of Order and Disorder. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (p. 412).
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