Irwin W Sherman

Gebundenes Buch

Drugs That Changed the World

How Therapeutic Agents Shaped Our Lives

Beschreibung

Drugs are used in the diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, prevention or cure of disease. This is a book about drugs, how they came to be, and how they exert their 'magic'. Today we have drugs to protect against infectious diseases, to alleviate aches and pains, to allow new organs to replace the old, and for brain functions to be modified. Yet, for the most part the manner by which drugs are developed and by whom remains a mystery. Drugs are more than just a pill or liquid and some have markedly altered the path of civilization. The author has selected a sampling -- drugs that represent milestones in affecting our well-being and influenced social change.

Autor

Irwin W. Sherman is a Professor Emeritus, University of California at Riverside, where he carried out malaria research for more than 4 decades and published 150 scholarly papers and wrote 12 books. He graduated with honors from the City College of New York, received master's and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University, did postdoctoral research at the Rockefeller Institute, the National Institute for Medical Research (UK), the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Australia) and was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Biologic Institut of the Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the College of Medicine, University of California at San Diego.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 197
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781498796491
• ISBN-10: 1498796494
• Artikelnr.: 46948289