Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Pharmaceuticals

Contents: Viviane Quirke/Judy Slinn: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Pharmaceuticals: an Introduction - Jonathan Simon/ Axel C. Hüntelmann: Two Models for Production and Regulation: the diphtheria serum in Germany and France - Frank Huisman: Struggling for the Market: strategies of Dutch pharmaceutical companies, 1880-1940 - María Jesús Santesmases: Distributing Penicillin: the clinic, the hero and industrial production in Spain, 1943-1952 - Marion A. Hulverscheidt: The Scientist-Entrepreneur or Financing in Pharmaceutical Research: a portrait of the malariologist Werner Schulemann, 1888-1975 - Cay-Rüdiger Prüll: Scientists, Doctors and Drug Development: the history of Raymond P. Ahlquist's receptor theory, 1948-1988 - Claude Richard/Marie-Therese Lussier: Proposition of a Model for the Discussion of Medications during Medical Encounters - Tony Corley: Twentieth-Century American Contributions to the Growth of the Beecham Enterprise - Sergio Sismondo: Linking Research and Marketing, a Pharmaceutical Innovation - Manon Niquette/William J. Buxton: Relieving Twentieth-Century Excesses: the socialization of antacid and laxative uses through advertising - John P. Swann: Reducing with Dinitrophenol: self-medication and the challenge of regulating a dangerous pharmaceutical before the US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act - Dominique A. Tobbell: Charitable Innovations: the political economy of thalassemia research and drug development in the United States, 1960-2000 - Heather Munro Prescott: Imperfect Methods and Uncertain Choices: the regulation and marketing of emergency contraception in the United States - Beat Bächi: Producing Ascorbic Acid: how microbes transformed the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-la Roche, 1933-1953 - Michael Bürgi/Bruno J. Strasser: Pharma in Transition: new approaches to drug development at F. Hoffmann-la Roche & Co, 1960-1980 - Anne-Laure Saives/Mehran Ebrahimi/Robert H. Desmarteau (with the collaboration of Catherine Garnier): Knowledge

Viviane Quirke is RCUK Academic Fellow in twentieth-century biomedicine in the history department at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is Secretary of the British Society for the History of Science, and editor of the newsletter of the Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group. Her publications include Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Changing Relationships in Britain and in France, ca 1935-1965 (2007).
Judy Slinn is Reader in Strategy and Business History in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University, UK. As a business historian her publications include histories of Glaxo, May & Baker and Abbott Laboratories in the UK, as well as book chapters and articles on the development of the industry, price regulation, innovation and patents.