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On Trial : Testing New Drugs in Psychiatry, 1940-1980.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meier, Marietta.
- Series:
- Social Histories of Medicine Series
- Social Histories of Medicine Series ; v.58
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotropic drugs--Testing.
- Psychotropic drugs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger story: the changing history of clinical trials.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The 1940s: The ball gets rolling
- The 1950s: Testing frenzy with Geigy
- Test patients
- The 1960s: A flood of substances and new dimensions of testing
- Substance logistics, information streams, and money flows
- The 1970s: Between doldrums and success
- Fatal incidents
- The 1980s: A long, restless finale
- Conclusion
- Chronology
- List of test substances
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Meier, Marietta On Trial
- ISBN:
- 9781526169815
- OCLC:
- 1443626861
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