Tax, Medicines and the Law: from Quackery to Pharmacy
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 2848
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781139178990
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-107-02545-5
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the outcome of five years’ sustained research funded by the Wellcome Trust, and addresses how the medicine stamp duty (1783-1941) regulated the trade in proprietary (‘quack’) medicines. It integrates three perspectives: legal, fiscal and social. Seating complex doctrinal analysis of the law in its complete operational context, based on an extensive body of legal, official and professional sources, it provides a new understanding of the tax’s significance to pharmacy, and its unique importance as a model revealing profound and enduring issues regarding the authority of law, limits of bureaucratic power, and the role of tax in society.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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