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Collaboration in the pharmaceutical industry: changing relationships in Britain and France, 1935-1965 / Viviane Quirke.
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1. Pharmacy--Research--France--History--20th century. 2.
Drugs--Research--France--History--20th century. 3. Pharmaceutical industry--France--History--20th century. 4. Pharmacy--Research--Great Britain--History--20th century. 5. Drugs--Research--Great Britain--History--20th century. 6. Pharmaceutical industry--Great Britain--History--20th century. 7. Pharmacy--Research--International cooperation. 8. Drugs--Research--Interrnational cooperation. 9. Pharmaceutical industry--International cooperation. I. Title. II. Series.
[DNLM: 1. Drug Industry--history--France. 2. Drug Industry--history--Great Britain. 3. History, 20th Century--France. 4. History, 20th Century--Great Britain. 5. International Cooperation--history--France. 6. International Cooperation--history--Great Britain. 7. Technology, Pharmaceutical--history--France. 8. Technology, Pharmaceutical--history--Great Britain. QV 711 FA1 Q8c 2007]
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Contents
Acknowledgments
This book is based on my doctoral thesis, carried out at Oxford University, and completed in 2000. I am grateful for the guidance and opportunities, which my two supervisors Robert Fox and Paul Weindling gave me then, and continue to give me today. I have since then worked in collaboration with Frank James, Judy Slinn, and Roy Church. I thank all three for associating me with their stimulating projects. I am indebted to the Wellcome Trust, which funded my post-doctoral fellowship as well as my D.Phil., enabling me to continue working on pharmaceutical archives in France as well as in Britain. Working on these archives has been a rare privilege, for which I thank especially AstraZeneca and Sanofi-Aventis, and all those responsible for keeping their records and making them accessible to me, in particular Olivier de Boisboissel, Audrey Cooper, Dr Jean Gaillard, Carolyn Naylor, Dr David McNeillie, and Grard Nichele.
Over the years the staff of the Pasteur Institute have given me invaluable assistance: Denise Ogilvie, Stphane Kraxner, and Daniel Demellier in the archive centre, and Annick Perrot in the photographic library. Similarly, Hlne Chambefort has kindly guided me through the archives of INSERM, as has Eric Sidebottom, through the photographic collection of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford. The staffs of the Public Record Office (now the National Archives Centre), the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, and the Bodleian Library, also deserve my acknowledgements for their hard work and dedication.
I am particularly grateful to scientists for granting me interviews, and allowing me a glimpse of their lives, especially the late Norman Heatley, whose kindness and encouragement gave me confidence as I embarked on what was for me then an unfamiliar subject, the history of penicillin. This book is therefore the result of a long, personal journey, which has taken me from the French school of social history, to the British school of history of science, technology and medicine. Along the way I have been lucky enough to receive help from numerous colleagues, many of whom I would now count as my friends. The meeting I had with Jonathan Liebenau and Mike Robson at the London School of Economics many years ago helped to launch me on my project to compare the French and British pharmaceutical industries. Since then, it has been enriched by published and unpublished material kindly made available to me by Pnina-Abir Am, Jon Agar, Carol Beadle, Jaye Chin-Dusting, Roger Cooter, Tony Corley, Diane Dosso, Desmond Fitzgerald, James Foreman-Peck, Jean-Paul Gaudillre, Franois Guinot, Sally Horrochs, Jean-Claude Jaignault, Christopher Lawrence, Muriel Le Roux, Ilana Lwy, Sverine Massat-Bourrah, Kim Pelis, Dominique Pestre, Judy Slinn, Jeff Sturchio, Steve Sturdy, Charles Suckling, and Keith Williams.
