Book ID: CBB000830821

Antimicrobial Drugs: Chronicle of a Twentieth Century Medical Triumph (2008)

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Greenwood, David (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xxix + 429 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Hamilton-Miller, Jeremy M. T. (2009) Review of "Antimicrobial Drugs: Chronicle of a Twentieth Century Medical Triumph". Social History of Medicine (p. 426). unapi

Review Hardy, Susan (2009) Review of "Antimicrobial Drugs: Chronicle of a Twentieth Century Medical Triumph". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 281). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Zini, Marco
Kirchhelle, Claas
Liana Nissim
Worboys, Michael
William, Rosen
Umemura, Maki
Concepts
Medicine
Pharmacy
Antibiotics
Pharmaceutical industry
Penicillin
Chemical drugs
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Florence (Italy)
Sweden
Spain
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Institutions
St. John's University (New York)
Pfizer, Inc.
Medical Research Council (Great Britain)
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