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The antibiotic era : reform, resistance, and the pursuit of a rational therapeutics

Title
The antibiotic era : reform, resistance, and the pursuit of a rational therapeutics / Scott H. Podolsky.
Author
Podolsky, Scott H.
Publication
  • Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
xii, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Reform, resistance, and the pursuit of a rational therapeutics
Subject
  • Antibiotics > History
  • Drug resistance in microorganisms
  • Antibacterial agents > History
  • Pharmaceutical industry > United States > History
  • Drug resistance
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents > history
  • Drug Industry > history
  • Drug Resistance
  • History, 20th Century
  • Legislation, Drug > history
  • Antibiotica
  • Antibacterial agents
  • Antibiotics
  • Pharmaceutical industry
  • Antibiotikum
  • Therapie
  • Resistenz
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-298) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The origins of antibiotic reform -- Antibiotics and the invocation of the controlled clinical trial -- From sigmamycin to panalba : antibiotics and the FDA -- "Rational" therapeutics and the limits to delimitation -- Responding to antibiotic resistance -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781421415932
  • 1421415933
  • 9781421415949 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1421415941 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014014551
OCLC
  • ocn877024247
  • 877024247
  • SCSB-14174633
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries