Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health (The Chemical Heritage Foundation Series in Innovation and Entrepreneurship) - Hardcover

Lardau, Ralph; Achilladelis, Basil; Scriabine, Alexander; Landau, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941901211 ISBN 13: 9780941901215

Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1999

Synopsis

A wide-ranging look at an industry that is central to the health and welfare of humanity, this pioneering work documents how science has provided an astonishing array of medicines for coping with human ailments over the last 150 years. Pharmaceutical Innovation covers the history of the pharmaceutical industry and its many contributions to human health. Underpinning the volume is an outline of the five generations of medicine, from the 1820s to present day. The volume also addresses industry leaders, economic influences, and the development of individual products. These factors have particular significance for the pharmaceutical industry today. This book's account of research and development in a key industry makes Pharmaceutical Innovation required reading for policy makers, economists, corporate executives, research managers, and historians of science, technology, and medicine.

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About the Author

Ralph Landau is Senior Fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Consulting Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School. He was cofounder of the Halcon/Scientific Design Group in 1946 and the Oxirane Company in 1966.

Basil Achilladelis was Senior Administrator of the Environment Directorate for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. His research focuses on technical innovations in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Alexander Scriabine, M.D., is Editor of Cardiovascular Drug Reviews, Co-editor of CNS Drug Reviews, and a lecturer at Yale University Medical School. He spent thirty-six years in the pharmaceutical industry, at Pfizer, Merck, and Miles Laboratories (now Bayer Corporation).

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A wide-ranging look at an industry that is central to the health and welfare of humanity. This pioneering work addresses the astonishing surge in medicines for coping with human ailments that science has provided over the last 150 years. Chronicling these years was a challenge, given the quantity of information-on individuals, corporations, and developments industrywide-that needed to be analyzed and gathered into a collective history. How best to proceed?

The editors of Pharmaceutical Innovation-Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis, and Alexander Scriabine-have taken a unique, integrated approach. They have not only addressed the history of the pharmaceutical industry in chronological terms (underpinning the volume is an outline of the five generations of medicine, from the 1820s to present day) but have also examined the development of individual products, leaders in the industry, and even economic influences, which have particular significance for the pharmaceutical industry today.

Pharmaceutical Innovation concludes with a number of case studies that examine factors influencing the rate of drug development. The book-s resources also include a list of references for every chapter, an index, and a helpful glossary.

The book's account of research and development in a key industry makes Pharmaceutical Innovation required reading for policy makers, economists, corporate executives and research managers, as well as historians of science, technology, and medicine.

The second volume in the Chemical Heritage Foundation Series in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Edition details

• Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941901211
• ISBN 13: 9780941901215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 412