Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950 (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950; C.Gradmann & J.Simon Paul Ehrlich's Standardization of Serum; Wertbestimmung and its Meaning for Twentieth-Century Biomedicine; C-R.Pruell Evaluation as a Practical Technique of Administration: The Regulation and Standardisation of Diphtheria Serum; A.Huntelman From Diphtheria to Tetanus: The Development of Evaluation Methods for Sera in Imperial Germany; A.I.Hardy The Construction of a Culture of Standardization at the Institut Pasteur, 1885-1900; G.Gachelin Quality Control and the Politics of Serum Production in France; J.Simon 'The Geneva serum is excellent!' Autonomy and Isolation in Swiss Cantons during the Early Years of Diphtheria Serum: the Case of Geneva; M.Kaba The State, The Serum Institutes and The League of Nations; P.Mazumdar Questions of quality: The Danish State Serum Institute, Thorvald Madsen and biological standardisation; A.Hardy 'The Wright Way': The Production and Standardisation of Therapeutic Vaccines in Britain, 1902-1913; M.Worboys The Visible Industrialist: Standards And The Manufacture Of Sex Hormones; J-P.Gaudilliere 'We need for digitalis preparations what the state has established for serumtherapy...': From Collecting Plants to International Standardization: the Case of Strophanthin, 1900-1938; C.Bonah Changing Regulations and Risk Assessments. National Responses to the Introduction of Inactivated Polio Vaccine in the UK and the FDR 327; U.Lindner Standardization before Biomedicine: On Early forms of Regulatory Objectivity; A.Cambrosio Index