Drugs that changed the world : how therapeutic agents shaped our lives / Irwin W. Sherman
By: Sherman, Irwin W [author].
Publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]Description: xi, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781498796491 (hardback : alk. paper).Subject(s): Drugs -- History | Pharmacology -- History | Drug development -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | RM300 .S53 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000010161 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Malaria and antimalarials -- The painkiller, aspirin -- Ether, chloroform, cocaine, morphine, heroin and anesthesia -- The pill -- Diabetes and insulin -- Smallpox and vaccination -- Vaccines to combat infectious diseases -- The great pox syphilis and salvarsan -- Prontosil, pyrimethamine, and penicillin -- AIDS, HIV and antiretrovirals -- Organ transplantation and cyclosporine -- Malaria, madness and chlorpromazine