Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: Paradox of order and disorder

Toine Pieters; Stephen Snelders

doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.05.006

Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: Paradox of order and disorder

Toine Pieters, Stephen Snelders

Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology

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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. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	412-414
Number of pages	3
Journal	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume	42
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.05.006
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2011

Keywords

History
Psychiatry
Psychochemicals
Psychotropic drugs
Standardization
psychotropic agent
article
history
human
mental disease
psychiatry
standard

UN SDGs

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Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: Paradox of order and disorder. / Pieters, Toine; Snelders, Stephen.
In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 42, No. 4, 01.12.2011, p. 412-414.

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Standardizing psychotropic drugs and drug practices in the twentieth century: Paradox of order and disorder

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