The use of biologics – drugs made from living organisms – has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained in this

The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the

The global pharmaceutical industry is currently estimated to be worth $1 trillion. Contributors chart the rise of scientific marketing within the industry from

Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of models for

Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical subs