Risd/Athenaeum:
Ikenson, Ben. Patents : Bubblewrap, Bottlecaps, Barbed Wire, and Other Ingenious Inventions. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, Incorporated, 2004.
Josiah:
Leighton, Isabel. The Aspirin Age, 1919-1941. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949.
Risd/Athenaeum:
Jeffreys, Diarmuid. Aspirin : The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug. Grand Rapids: Bloomsbury, 2004.
J-STOR:
hun, Beyond Willow Bark: Aspirin in the Prevention of Chronic Disease J. "Beyond Willow Bark: Aspirin in the Prevention of Chronic Disease." Epidemiology 11 (2000): 371-74.
Google:
www.aspirin.com and "the world of aspirin" link
Wikipedia Travels:
Vane, J. R. "The mechanism of action of aspirin." Thrombosis Research 110 (2003): 255-58.
A Time Article: Aspirin Scores Again
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=17&sid=b15a1400-1982-4182-bb64-a4cd892cce00%40sessionmgr8&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=18065366
-George Warner
4 comments:
I went last year to a really interesting lecture given by Emily Martin on "The Pharmaceutical Person." One thing she started to discuss was whether part of our fascination with pills has to do with our draw to the Miniature. But she looked at a number of other interesting correlations-- the way advertisements for pills are designed, the humanizing way we treat pills, the exploitations of the person by pharmaceutical corporations...
Now her paper delineating out all of this is available online! at http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.cambridge.org%2Fproduction%2Faction%2FcjoGetFulltext%3Ffulltextid%3D525732&ei=_kjlSKffFpSG8gSBg9yzDg&usg=AFQjCNEI7fLka9S9fwr62QkleEBC7vqW6g&sig2=nQ5BrzqrGj6sS-b_4dmffw (just to warn you, it's a PDF). The miniaturization thing is on page eight, but the whole article, although it isn't about aspirin in particular (actually it focuses on psychotropic drugs), might really interest you and I hope might even be helpful for your paper!
.Jenny.
Drawing on what Jenny suggested, pharmaceutical ads provide very interesting and illuminating glimpses into a drug's social relations and perceived image.
This link: http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/88173.html
has pharmaceutical ads from the 50s and 60s. Though the closest it comes to aspirin is Tylenol, it still provides a good example of the ways in which social perception of drugs has changed over the past half-century.
--nicole
You might be really interested in considering whether our society over-prescribes or over-administers drugs like aspirin. I'd be interested in knowing if abuse rates were higher with OTCs (like aspirin) than prescriptions.
Google books popped up with a play called ASPIRIN & ELEPHANTS - don't know if that'd be helpful.
Maybe a scientific approach to the mechanism of aspirin would be interesting: aspirin works by blocking both Cox inhibitors, meaning that pain is reduced, but you increase your risk of ulcers and bleeding - another form of pain.
Nupur Shridhar
If you want some uses for aspirin besides medical (or at least purported uses), this book came up in Google books with uses for it like reviving a car battery:
http://books.google.com/books?id=thwfu7d4dc0C&pg=PA55&dq=aspirin&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U3rRRQ9DZWabo-5uPoLOKBaKbldnQ#PPA56,M1
--Marguerite Preston
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