On Trial - Testing New Drugs in Psychiatry, 1940?1980

The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger story: the changing history of clinical trials.

About the author

Marietta Meier is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Zurich

Summary

The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger story: the changing history of clinical trials. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Mario Konig, Mario König, Marietta Meier, Marietta K?nig Meier, Marietta Konig Meier, Marietta Tornay Meier, Magaly Tornay
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2024
• EAN: 9781526169808
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6980-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; 20th Century, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Psychiatry, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, Psychopharmacology, Clinical Trials