The Pharmaceutical Industry - A Guide to Historical Records

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.

List of contents

Contents: Foreword, Peter Haggett; The early years of the pharmaceutical industry; The British pharmaceutical industry since 1851; Archives of the pharmaceutical industry: their scope and use; Select chronology of pharmaceutical legislation; Select bibliography; User's guide; Select glossary of pharmaceutical terms; Pharmaceutical businesses: lists of records; Trade organisations and pharmacy schools: lists of records; Appendices; Indexes.

About the author

Lesley Richmond, Julie Stevenson

Summary

The core of this book consists of a business-by-business guide to the pharmaceutical industry's records. Each entry includes a brief history of the company, a summary of its surviving archives and a bibliography of related publications.

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Richmond, Richmond Lesley, Julie Stevenson, Stevenson Julie
• Assisted by: Lesley Richmond (Editor), Julie Stevenson (Editor), Alison Turton (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2003
• EAN: 9780754633525
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3352-5
• No. of pages: 570
• Weight: 793 g
• Series: Studies in British Business Archives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History: specific events and topics, Manufacturing industries, Pharmaceutical industries, Bibliographies, catalogues