Drugs That Changed the World: How Therapeutic Agents Shaped Our Lives

ISBN-13: 9781138575776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 197 str.

USA) San Diego Irwin W. (University of California Sherman

Opis

This book is about drugs, how they came to be, and how they exert their ‘magic’. Drugs are more than just a pill or liquid and some have markedly altered the path of civilization. The author has selected a sampling -- drugs that represent milestones in affecting our well-being and influenced social change.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Irwin W. Sherman is a Professor Emeritus, University of California at Riverside, where he carried out malaria research for more than 4 decades and published 150 scholarly papers and wrote 12 books. He graduated with honors from the City College of New York, received master’s and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University, did postdoctoral research at the Rockefeller Institute, the National Institute for Medical Research (UK), the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Australia) and was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Biologic Institut of the Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the College of Medicine, University of California at San Diego.