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Laughing gas, Viagra, and Lipitor : the human stories behind the drugs we use / Jie Jack Li.
- Title
- Laughing gas, Viagra, and Lipitor : the human stories behind the drugs we use / Jie Jack Li.
- Author
- Li, Jie Jack.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
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| Text | Request in advance | RM301.15 .L5 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 310 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Jie Jack Li is a medicinal chemist and is intimately involved with drug discovery. Through extensive research and interviews with the inventors of drugs, including those of Viagra and Lipitor, he has assembled an astounding number of facts and anecdotes, as well as much useful information about important drugs we know and use in our lives today. Figures, diagrams, and illustrations highlight the text throughout."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Cancer drugs: from nitrogen mustards to Gleevec -- Drugs to kill germs -- Cardiovascular drugs: from nitroglycerin to Lipitor -- Sex and drugs -- Drugs of the mind -- Diabetes drugs -- Anesthetics -- Anti-inflammatory drugs -- Reflections.
- ISBN
- 0195300998 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780195300994
- LCCN
- ^^2006002586
- OCLC
- 63195918
- SCSB-10410760
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library