Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Changing Relationships in Britain and France, 1935-1965

ISBN-13: 9781138971042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 376 str.

Viviane Quirke;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This book argues that the relationship between Britain and France helped to disseminate a culture of research and resulted in the transformation of the medical sciences and the pharmaceutical industry in both countries.

Spis treści

General Introduction: A History of Collaboration Part 1 Blurred Boundaries: Drug Research and Production in Britain and France Before the Second World War 1 Research Institutions and Pharmaceutical Laboratories 2 Scientific Communities and Networks Part 2 Collaborative Networks in War and Peace 3 Mobilization for War: Making Penicillin in Britain and America  4 Collaboration and Resistance: Developing Penicillin and the Synthetic Anti-histamines in France Part 3 Continuity and Change in Medical Science and Industry after World War Two 5 ‘Continuity through Revolution’ in France 6 ‘Revolution through Continuity’ in Britain General Conclusion Britain and France in the Twentieth Century: a Tale of Two Cultures Bibliography Notes Index

O autorze

Viviane Quirke is Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, UK.