Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy - Hardcover

Bud, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199254060 ISBN 13: 9780199254064

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Bud is Head of Information and Research, Science Museum, London.

Review:

"This extremely well-written and exhaustively researched book is invaluable in understanding the story of penicillin and its cohorts as set against an ever-changing world social and economic order. It is worthy of the widest possible readership. Highly recommended."--I. Richman, CHOICE

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0199254060
• ISBN 13: 9780199254064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340