The antibiotic era : reform, resistance, and the pursuit of a rational therapeutics / Scott H. Podolsky.

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Podolsky, Scott H [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text
still image

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781421415949
1421415941

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Antibiotic eraDDC classification:

615.7/922 23

LOC classification:

RM267 .P63 2015eb

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QV 11 AA1

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-298) and index.

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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.

English.

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