Book ID: CBB000741939

Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy (2007)

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Bud, Robert (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: ix + 330 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Anderson, Stuart (2008) Review of "Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (p. 335). unapi

Review Pickstone, John V. (2010) Review of "Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 138). unapi

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Essay Review Strasser, Bruno J. (2008) Magic Bullets and Wonder Pills: Making Drugs and Diseases in the Twentieth. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 303-312). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Victoria Bell
Shama, Gilbert
Santesmases, María Jesús
Kirchhelle, Claas
Landas, Marc
William, Rosen
Concepts
Antibiotics
Penicillin
Medicine
Pharmaceutical industry
Pharmacy
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Portugal
Brazil
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
Sweden
Spain
Institutions
Coimbra University Hospital
St. John's University (New York)
Pfizer, Inc.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Medical Research Council (Great Britain)
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