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The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority (2017)

Santesmases, María Jesús (Author)

Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2017
Language: English

ISBN: 9783319697178

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 239 pages

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This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional, political and social – were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillin’s lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.

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Review Daniele Cozzoli (2019) Review of "The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 371-372). unapi

Review Cristina Moreno Lozano (2022) Review of "The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 123-125). unapi

Review Agata Ignaciuk (April 2021) Review of "The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority". Technology and Culture (pp. 622-623). unapi

Review Dmitriy Myelnikov (2020) Review of "The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority". Social History of Medicine (pp. 670-672). unapi

Review Angela N. H. Creager (2019) Review of "The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 199-201). unapi

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