Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950

This book provides an examination of the regulations that have been successively put into place since the Second World War to standardize the quality and criteria of pharmaceutical products, vaccines and medicines.

Christoph Gradmann is a professor in the history of medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway. He received his doctorate as a historian from the University of Hanover in 1992, and has held positions at the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research interests cover the history of infectious diseases in modernity, the history of antibiotic resistance, medical biography and the history of standardization in twentieth-century medicine. His most recent book publication is Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology.
Jonathan Simon teaches history of science at the University of Lyon France. After receiving a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied and taught in Berlin, Paris, Sydney and Strasbourg. He has worked and published in both the history of pharmacy and the history of chemistry and is the co-author (with Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent) of Chemistry: The mpure Science.