Robert Bud

Penicillin

Triumph and Tragedy

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Produktbeschreibung

Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy Curated by Robert Bud A new exhibition looking back over 50 years will explore changing attitudes to antibiotics and launch at the Science Museum on Thursday 10 May 2007 . In the 1950s antibiotics were cast as wonder drugs, but strains of bacteria resistant to penicillin were already widespread. They caused many deaths, most dramatically, infecting hospitalised victims of Asian flu in the autumn of 1957. Now we fear MRSA. How have attitudes, hopes and fears changed in half a century? Press information from Stephen Bromberg, Science Museum Press Office, [e-mail] 020 7942 4352

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Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that the threat of infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' these hopes have faded. Robert Bud pulls these different but conjoined stories into a compelling narrative: using a wealth of new research, he sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural change across the world. His book will be of great interest to historians, scientists, and anyone wishing to understand this drug's seismic impact on our lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9780199254064
• ISBN-10: 0199254060
• Artikelnr.: 22045404

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Illness, drugs and wonder drugs before penicillin
2: Penicillin from organised science
3: Creating the brand in the era of propaganda
4: Making penicillin across the world
5: The carefree culture and the third industrial revolution
6: Fighting resistance with technology
7: Doctors, patients and the brand
8: Animals, resistance and committees
9: In face of catastrophe
Conclusion