- Viking
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
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- William Rosen
- Viking
- Hardcover
- 9780525428107
- 8.9 X 6.3 X 1.4 inches
- 1.15 pounds
- Medical > Pharmacology
- English
Book Description
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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