Evaluating and standardizing therapeutic agents, 1890-1950 / edited by Christoph Gradmann and Jonathan Simon.

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction PART I: THE EVALUATION OF THE QUALITY OF DIPHTHERIA SERUM FROM NATIONAL PRACTICES OF PRODUCTION AND REGULATION TO THE DREAM OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS Paul Ehrlich's Standardization of Serum; Wertbestimmung and its Meaning for Twentieth-Century Biomedicine / C-R.Pruell -- From Diphtheria to Tetanus: The Development of Evaluation Methods for Sera in Imperial Germany / A.I. Hardy -- Evaluation as a practical technique of administration: The regulation and standardisation of diphtheria serum / A. Hüntelman -- Building up 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 -- PART II: DIFFERENT MEDICINES, DIFFERENT STANDARDS '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. Gaudillière -- '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 / U. Lindner -- Standardization before biomedicine: On early forms of regulatory objectivity / A. Cambrosio.