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Penicillin : triumph and tragedy / Robert Bud.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: ix, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199254060
  • 9780199254064
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.3295654 22
LOC classification:
  • RM666.P35 B83 2007
Contents:
Introduction : penicillin - chemical and brand -- 1. Illness, drugs, and wonder drugs before penicillin -- 2. Penicillin from organized science -- 3. Creating the brand in the era of propaganda -- 4. Making penicillin across the world -- 5. The carefree culture and the third industrial revolution -- 6. Fighting resistance with technology -- 7. Doctors, patients, and the brand -- 8. Animals, resistance, and committees -- 9. In face of catastrophe -- Conclusion : revolution and tragedy.
Summary: "Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that the threat of infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' these hopes have faded. Robert Budpulls these different but conjoined stories into a compelling narrative: using a wealth of new research, he sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural change across the world. His book will be of great interest to historians, scientists, and anyone wishingto understand this drug's seismic impact on our lives."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-318) and index.

Introduction : penicillin - chemical and brand -- 1. Illness, drugs, and wonder drugs before penicillin -- 2. Penicillin from organized science -- 3. Creating the brand in the era of propaganda -- 4. Making penicillin across the world -- 5. The carefree culture and the third industrial revolution -- 6. Fighting resistance with technology -- 7. Doctors, patients, and the brand -- 8. Animals, resistance, and committees -- 9. In face of catastrophe -- Conclusion : revolution and tragedy.

"Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that the threat of infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' these hopes have faded. Robert Budpulls these different but conjoined stories into a compelling narrative: using a wealth of new research, he sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural change across the world. His book will be of great interest to historians, scientists, and anyone wishingto understand this drug's seismic impact on our lives."--Publisher description.

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