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Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy
by Bud, R
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Oxford University Press, 2007. ix, 330, 27 text figs. . HB. Fine in d/w - as new.. 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 infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' in recent decades these hopes have faded. Across the world, we are warned that widespread antibiotic abuse will inexorably erode the drugs' efficacy and our own earlier confidence in them. This book pulls these different but conjoined stories into a compelling narrative spanning the second half of the twentieth century. Using a wealth of new research, the author sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural change across the world. He examines the drug's critical contributions to medicine and agriculture, and he investigates the global spread of resistant bacteria as antibiotic use continues to rise. Clearly written and highly topical, his book will be of great interest to historians, scientists, and anyone wishing to understand penicillin's seismic impact on modern life.. [9780199254064]
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- Title
- Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy
- Author
- Bud, R
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0199254060
- ISBN 13
- 9780199254064
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2007
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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