Generic : the unbranding of modern medicine
Record details
- ISBN: 9781421414935 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1421414937 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781421414942 (electronic)
- ISBN: 1421414945 (electronic)
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Physical Description:
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xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The same but not the same -- What's in a name? Ordering the world of cures ; The generic as critique of the brand -- No such thing as a generic drug? Drugs anonymous ; Origins of a self-effacing industry ; Generic specificity -- The sciences of similarity. Contests of equivalence ; The significance of differences -- Laws of substitution. Substitution as vice and virtue ; Universal exchange -- Paradoxes of generic consumption. Liberating the captive consumer ; Generic consumption in the clinic, pharmacy, and supermarket The generic alternative. Science and politics of the "me-too" drug ; Preferred drugs, public and private ; The global generic -- The crisis of similarity. |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
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Subject: | Generic drugs History Drugs, Generic history Drug Industry history History, 20th Century History, 21st Century |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RM 301 .G74 2014 | 30775305487457 | General Collection | Available | - |