An edition of The first miracle drugs (2006)

The first miracle drugs

how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine

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An edition of The first miracle drugs (2006)

The first miracle drugs

how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine

In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines were not penicillin and antibiotics, but sulfonamides, or sulfa drugs. The sulfa drugs preceded penicillin by almost a decade, and during World War II they carried the main therapeutic burden in both military and civilian medicine. Their success stimulated a rapid expansion of research and production in the international pharmaceutical industry, raised expectations of medicine, and accelerated the appearance of new and powerful medicines based on research. The latter development created new regulatory dilemmas and unanticipated therapeutic problems. The sulfa drugs also proved extraordinarily fruitful as starting points for new drugs or classes of drugs, both for bacterial infections and for a number of important non-infectious diseases.

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Language
English
Pages
364

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Table of Contents

Beginnings
A system of invention
Prontosil
Into the maelstrom
Accommodation and survival
Pathways of recognition
M & B 693
Acclaim and expansion
At war
Trial by fire
A mechanism revealed
The sulfa drugs and twentieth-century medicine.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
615/.32938
Library of Congress
RM663.S9 L47 2006, RM663.S9L47 2006, RM666.S88 L47 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
364

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3419626M
Internet Archive
firstmiracledrug0000lesc
ISBN 10
019518775X
ISBN 13
9780195187755
LCCN
2005036136
OCLC/WorldCat
62661759
Library Thing
3789534
Goodreads
1015889

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL5597278W

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