Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: paradox of order and disorder.
According to ongoing historical research, standardizing the production and consumption of psychotropic drugs is a process fraught with contradictions and inconsistencies. Both the construction and change of drug standards can be highly unsettling events and do not necessarily lead to more order. The balance between order and disorder appears to be rather fragile and paradoxically at all stages in the evolution of standards we see order-disorder transitions.
Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of Sciences and Humanities, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Toine
T
Pieters
Stephen
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Snelders
D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history* / Q000592:standards; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000266:history* / Q000592:standards / Q000627:therapeutic use
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs