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Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia’s North Coast, 1870–2005 (review)

The 1911 Insurance act, which provided subsidies to pharmacists for dispensing medicines and the creation of the NHS, revolutionized the scale of consumption. The state’s largesse not only provided an incentive for individuals to consume more, but for pharmaceutical companies to invest more in the expectation of near limitless market expansion. Neither of these developments was inherently bad; illness was widespread and the therapeutic revolutions produced aspirin and penicillin, two of the most important drugs ever invented, while the pharmaceutical industry made them cheap enough to aid millions of sufferers. This excellent collection of articles reinforces this point and is a valuable addition to our understanding of exactly how the modern, not just the British, pharmaceutical industry became the Janus-faced giant of today.