Pain and profits [electronic resource] : the history of the headache and its remedies in America / Jan R. McTavish.
By: McTavish, Janice Rae.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc
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Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004Description: vii, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Headache | Headache -- Treatment -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 616.8/49106 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 616.8/49 The vegetative state | 616.8/491 Migraine and other headaches | 616.8/4910076 Comprehensive review of headache medicine | 616.8/49106 Pain and profits | 616.8/4912 Understanding migraine and other headaches | 616.8/498 Sleep medicine | 616.8/498 Adolescent sleep patterns |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-232) and index.
The headache and its treatment in the nineteenth century -- Free choice and free enterprise in nineteenth century American drug supply -- Doctors and the drug trade -- The remarkable synthetic drugs -- Druggists, doctors and the law -- The Bayer Company: drugs as big business -- Did the headache finally meet its match? -- The headache in the twentieth century.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.