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15%OFFScott H. Podolsky - The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics - 9781421415932 - V9781421415932
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The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics

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Description for The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics Hardback. Only by understanding the historical forces that have shaped our current situation, Podolsky argues, can we properly understand and frame our choices moving forward. Num Pages: 328 pages, 25, 18 black & white halftones, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBN; MBX; MMG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
In The Antibiotic Era, physician-historian Scott H. Podolsky narrates the far-reaching history of antibiotics, focusing particularly on reform efforts that attempted to fundamentally change how antibiotics are developed and prescribed. This sweeping chronicle reveals the struggles faced by crusading reformers from the 1940s onward as they advocated for a rational therapeutics at the crowded intersection of bugs and drugs, patients and doctors, industry and medical academia, and government and the media. During the post-World War II "wonder drug" revolution, antibiotics were viewed as a panacea for mastering infectious disease. But from the beginning, critics raised concerns about irrational usage and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421415932
SKU
V9781421415932
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About Scott H. Podolsky
Scott H. Podolsky is an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. He is the author of Pneumonia Before Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America.

Reviews for The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics
The author deftly handles the debates that festered around the appropriate roles of industry, clinicians and government in the production and use of antibiotics... The work is scholarly, exceptionally well researched, and worthy of serious examination for those interested in past, current and future efforts to frame and inform the public about antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
John S. Haller, Jr. Pharmacy ... Read more

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