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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
CAY-RÜDIGER PRÜLL is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Currently he is supervising projects on the history of pharmacology and on the history of German military medicine between 1914 and 1945. Between 2000 and 2003 he was Senior Research Associate at the University of Durham, UK, working on a project on the impact of the receptor concept on modern pharmacology, which was sponsored by the Wellcome Trust. He has published extensively on the history of medicine, pharmacology and pathology including Traditions in Pathology in Western Europe Theories, Institutions and their Cultural Setting.
ANDREAS-HOLGER MAEHLE is Professor of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Durham University, UK, where he directs the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease. He previously held a lectureship at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and was a research fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. He has published widely on the history of medicine and pharmacology, including Drugs on Trial: Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth Century.
ROBERT F. HALLIWELL is Professor of Neuropharmacology at the Thomas J Long School of Pharmacy, University of the Pacific, in California. He previously held a lectureship in neuroscience at the University of Durham, UK and a research fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. His workfocuses on the pharmacological properties of nerve cell receptors and ion channels.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept
Authors: Cay-Rüdiger Prüll, Andreas-Holger Maehle, Robert Francis Halliwell
Series Title: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583740
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55415-3Published: 25 June 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58374-0Published: 25 June 2009
Series ISSN: 2946-9643
Series E-ISSN: 2946-9651
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 239
Topics: History of Science, Cultural History, History of Medicine, Nursing, Social History, Modern History