Recurring Revolutions: Tuberculosis Treatments in an Era of Antibiotics

Kehr, Janina; Condrau, Flurin (2016). Recurring Revolutions: Tuberculosis Treatments in an Era of Antibiotics. In: Greene, Jeremy; Condrau, Flurin; Siegel Watkins, Elizabeth (eds.) Therapeutic Revolution: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century (pp. 126-149). Chicago: University of Chicago Press

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When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight disease, from antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids to anticancer agents.

This collection challenges the historical accuracy of this revolutionary narrative and offers instead a more nuanced account of the process of therapeutic innovation and the relationships between the development of medicines and social change. These assembled histories and ethnographies span three continents and use the lived experiences of physicians and patients, consumers and providers, and marketers and regulators to reveal the tensions between universal claims of therapeutic knowledge and the actual ways these claims have been used and understood in specific sites, from postwar West Germany pharmacies to twenty-first century Nigerian street markets. By asking us to rethink a story we thought we knew, Therapeutic Revolutions offers invaluable insights to historians, anthropologists, and social scientists of medicine.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	02 Faculty of Law > Management im Gesundheitswesen (MIG) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology
UniBE Contributor:	Kehr, Janina, Condrau, Flurin
Subjects:	300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
ISBN:	978-0-226-39087-1
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Language:	English
Submitter:	Lisa Alvarado Grefa
Date Deposited:	19 Nov 2018 11:50
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:19
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/121232