Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of

Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.

As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics. By 1955, the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and microbes had been transformed, trivializing once-deadly infections.

Â Â Â William Rosen captures this revolution with all its false starts, lucky surprises, and eccentric characters. He explains why, given the complex nature of bacteriaâ€”and their ability to rapidly evolve into new formsâ€”the only way to locate and test potential antibiotic strains is by large-scale, systematic, trial-and-error experimentation. Organizing that research needs large, well-funded organizations and businesses, and so our entire scientific-industrial complex, built around the pharmaceutical company, was born.

Â Â Timely, engrossing, and eye-opening, Miracle Cure is a must-read science narrativeâ€”a drama of enormous range, combining science, technology, politics, and economics to illuminate the reasons behind one of the most dramatic changes in humanityâ€™s relationship with nature since the invention of agriculture ten thousand years ago.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-05-09
Format	Kindle eBook

Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

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