Andreas-Holger Maehle

Gebundenes Buch

Drugs on Trial

Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth-Century

Beschreibung

This book describes the main issues of eighteenth-century pharmacology and therapeutics and provides detailed case studies of three key areas: lithontriptics (remedies against urinary stones), opium, and Peruvian bark (quinine).

Autor

Andreas-Holger Maehle is Reader in History of Medicine at the University of Durham, England. He was trained as a doctor in Bonn and as a medical historian in Göttingen and London. He has published books on the toxicology of Johann Jakob Wepfer (1620-95) and on the origins of the vivisection debate in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His current research deals with the history of medical professional ethics in Germany and Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9789042007932
• ISBN-10: 9042007931
• Artikelnr.: 73367767