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Gendered drugs and medicine : historical and socio-cultural perspectives
- Author(s):
- Ortiz, Teresa, editor
- Santesmases, María Jesús, editor
- Title(s):
- Gendered drugs and medicine : historical and socio-cultural perspectives / edited by Teresa Ortiz-Gómez, María Jesús Santesmases.
- Series:
- Gender and well-being
- Country of Publication:
- England
- Publisher:
- Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2014]
- Description:
- vi, 246 pages : illustrations.
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Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 9781409454045 (hbk)
1409454045 (hbk)
9781409454052 (ebk - PDF)
9781472402318 (ebk - ePUB)
- LCCN:
- 2013044882
- MeSH:
- Drug Industry/history
History, 20th Century
Pharmaceutical Preparations/history
Sex Factors
Women's Health/history*
Women's Rights/history
Women, Working/history
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents:
- Introduction -- Gender and women in pharmaceutical research, consumption and industry -- Estrogens and butter yellow : gendered policies of contamination in Germany and Western Europe, 1940-1970 / Heiko Stoff -- Rising from failure : testing drugs and changing conceptions for female sexual dysfunction / Marta I González-García -- Circulating gender : women in antibiotics factories in Spain during Franco dictatorship / María Jesús Santesmases -- Contraceptives for women : between users and prescribers -- Spermicides and their female users after World War II : North and South / Ilana Löwy -- Managing medication and producing patients : imagining women's use of contraceptive pill compliance dispensers in 1960-s America / Carrie Eisert -- Doctors, women and the circulation of knowledge on oral contraceptives in Spain : 1960s-1970s / Agata Ignaciuk, Teresa Ortiz-Gómez, Esteban Rodríguez- Ocaña -- The contraceptive pill, the pharmaceutical industry and changes in the patient- doctor relationship / Ulrike Thoms -- Users and abusers then and now : discourses and practices -- Women, men, and the morphine problem, 1870-1955 / Jesper Vaczy Kragh -- "A gendered vice?" : gender issues and drug abuse in France, 1960s-1990s / Alexandre Marchant -- Learning to be a girl : gender risk and legal drugs among Spanish teenagers / Nuria Romo-Avilés, Carmen Meneses, Eugenia Gil-García -- Index.
- NLM ID:
- 101639110 [Book]