Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries

"Ways of Regulating Drugs presents twelve very wide-ranging, generally excellent, and often quite specialized chapters. ... This is all thought-provoking, quality work. The 'ways of regulating' framework brings wonderfully sophisticated analysis to the history of drug regulation, especially when focused on state, industrial, professional, and juridical actors whose power to create and enforce is evident." - David Herzberg, University at Buffalo, USA

"Ways of Regulating Drugs offers a stimulating history of the pharmaceutical products and industry during the 19th and 20th century. The choice of the authors is to assume different ways of analysing drug trajectories the demonstration is really convincing: it shows that if drugs aren't like other goods and if public health refers to a specific market, their history might not remain at the frontiers of the history of sciences, economic history or political history. The question of drug trajectories and of their regulations has become crucial enough to be liable to resolutely and fruitful multidisciplinary approaches, of which this book is a major issue." - Sophie Chauveau, Gesnerus, 71, (2014)