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Alexander Fleming, the man and the myth / Gwyn Macfarlane.

Title
Alexander Fleming, the man and the myth / Gwyn Macfarlane.
Author
Macfarlane, Gwyn, 1907-1987
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984.

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Description
xiv, 304 p., [9] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
The story of penicillin has become the story of Alexander Fleming: world opinion has conferred upon him sole credit for what is arguably the single most important medical discovery ever made. Gwyn Macfalane's sensitive analysis of this much-mytholigized area of medical history makes a persuasive case for a major reappraisal of Fleming's role. Macfarlane, the widely acclaimed author of Howard Florey, discusses Fleming's background and personality, this impressive rise in the medical profession, the crucial discoveries of 1928, and the public recognition and adulation of the 1940s. His account is as compelling a study of human behavior as it is a careful examination of scientific discovery.
Subject
  • Fleming, Alexander, Sir, 1881-1955
  • Biography
  • Physicians
  • Bacteriology
  • Bacteriologists > Great Britain > Biography
  • Penicillin > History
  • Penicillins > history
  • Bacteriology > Biography
  • Physicians > Great Britain > Biography
  • Physicians > Biography > Great Britain
  • United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Fleming's main scientific papers": p. [293]-296.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Ayrshire background -- The Flemings of Lochfield -- The Flemings in London -- St Mary's Hospital -- Alexander Fleming : medical student -- Almroth Edward Wright -- The Inoculation Department -- The pre-war years -- The casino at Boulogne -- From Boulogne to Lysozyme -- From Lysozyme to penicillin -- The discovery of penicillin : the bare bones -- The discovery of penicillin : trials and errors -- Twelve busy years -- Enter Florey -- The Oxford triumph -- The rising tide -- On the crest of the wave -- The world hero -- The last act -- Myths and mysteries -- A personal assessment.
ISBN
0674014901
LCCN
^^^83018358^
OCLC
  • 9893971
  • SCSB-10130603
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library