The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Guide to Historical Records

Bys: Richmond, Lesley and Stevenson, Julie

The pharmaceutical industry has changed beyond all recognition in the past 100 years. The modern industry is constantly in the news as new breakthroughs in medical treatment are announced, often provoking ethical and social debates about the implications of new technologies. The Pharmaceutical Industry facilitates the study of the industry by providing information on the present location of pharmaceutical archives. It provides brief histories of nearly 300 pharmaceutical enterprises along with lists of their surviving records, and is supplemented by three introductory essays. Written by leading academics in the field, this volume will no doubt prove invaluable to researchers undertaking comparative studies of the pharmaceutical industry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754633527
• ISBN13: 9780754633525
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"