By Jeremy A. Greene,Flurin Condrau,Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
This assortment demanding situations the old accuracy of this innovative narrative and provides in its place a extra nuanced account of the method of healing innovation and the relationships among the advance of medications and social swap. those assembled histories and ethnographies span 3 continents and use the lived reports of physicians and sufferers, shoppers and companies, and agents and regulators to bare the tensions among common claims of healing wisdom and the particular methods those claims were used and understood in particular websites, from postwar West Germany pharmacies to twenty-first century Nigerian road markets. via asking us to reconsider a narrative we proposal we knew, Therapeutic Revolutions deals useful insights to historians, anthropologists, and social scientists of medicine.
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