Book ID: CBB582422523

Tax, Medicines and the Law: From Quackery to Pharmacy (2017)

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Stebbings, Chantal (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 256
Language: English

In 1783, a stamp duty was imposed on proprietary or 'quack' medicines. These largely useless but often dangerous remedies were immensely popular. The tax, which lasted until 1941, was imposed to raise revenue. It failed in its incidental regulatory purpose, had a negative effect in that the stamp was perceived as a guarantee of quality, and had a positive effect in encouraging disclosure of the formula. The book explains the considerable impact the tax had on chemists and druggists - how it led to an improvement in professional status, but undermined it by reinforcing their reputations as traders. The legislation imposing the tax was complex, ambiguous and never reformed. The tax authorities had to administer it, and executive practice came to dominate it. A minor, specialised, low-yield tax is shown to be of real significance in the pharmaceutical context, and of exceptional importance as a model revealing the wider impact of tax law and administration.

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Authors & Contributors
Gelati, Giacomo
Micheletti, Silvia
Pretto, Giovanni
Camana, Carla
Bovone, Giulia
Tanga, Mario
Concepts
Pharmacy
Medicine
Pharmacology
Pharmaceutical industry
Legislative and administrative regulations
Medicine and government
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Renaissance
20th century
17th century
Places
United States
Italy
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Padua (Italy)
South Carolina (U.S.)
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Deutsche Pharmazuetische Gesellschaft
American Society for Pharmacology
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