Book ID: CBB729311593

Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine (2017)

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William, Rosen (Author)


Viking


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 368 pages
Language: English

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics. By 1955, the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and microbes had been transformed, trivializing once-deadly infections.     William Rosen captures this revolution with all its false starts, lucky surprises, and eccentric characters. He explains why, given the complex nature of bacteria—and their ability to rapidly evolve into new forms—the only way to locate and test potential antibiotic strains is by large-scale, systematic, trial-and-error experimentation. Organizing that research needs large, well-funded organizations and businesses, and so our entire scientific-industrial complex, built around the pharmaceutical company, was born.    Timely, engrossing, and eye-opening, Miracle Cure is a must-read science narrative—a drama of enormous range, combining science, technology, politics, and economics to illuminate the reasons behind one of the most dramatic changes in humanity’s relationship with nature since the invention of agriculture ten thousand years ago.

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Authors & Contributors
Greene, Jeremy Alan
Daemmrich, Arthur Alfred
Perini, Giulia
Nicolás Cárdenas García
Rogelio Godínez Reséndiz
Suzanna Reiss
Concepts
Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical industry
Medicine
Medicine and politics
Antibiotics
Pharmacology
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Cuba
Spain
Poland
Japan
Germany
Institutions
Pfizer, Inc.
Wellcome Research Laboratories
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Deutsche Pharmazuetische Gesellschaft
American Society for Pharmacology
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