This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved in regulation, the forms of evidence and expertise mobilized, and means of intervention chosen to tame drugs in factories, consulting rooms and courts.

CHRISTIAN BONAH Professor for the History of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Strasbourg, France ALBERTO CAMBROSIO Professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, Canada MAURICE CASSIER Sociologist and a Senior Researcher for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France JEREMY GREENE Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, USA AXEL C. HÜNTELMANN Academic Assistant at the Institute for the History Theory and Ethics of Medicine at the Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany PETER KEATING Professor of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada ILANA LÖWY Senior Researcher at INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France HARRY M. MARKS was Associate Professor at the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA DONNA A. MESSNER Research Director at the Center for Medical Technology Policy in Baltimore, USA TOINE PIETERS Professor of the History of Pharmacy at Utrecht University, the Netherlands VIVIANE QUIRKE RCUK Academic Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Modern History and History at Oxford Brookes University, UK STEPHEN SNELDERS Research Fellow at the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands