Pharmaceutical achievers
Subtitle: the human face of pharmaceutical research
By: by Mary Ellen Bowden, Amy Beth Crow, and Tracy Sullivan
Contributors: Crow, Amy Beth, 1976-; Sullivan, Tracy
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Phialdelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Pharmacologists -- Biography; Drugs -- Research -- History
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index
Table of contents: title: Part I. Beginnings through the 1930s.; title: Early pharmaceuticals; title: Early pharmaceutical companies and the Pure Food and Drugs Act; title: Vitamins; title: Enzymes, hormones, and neurotransmitters; title: Sulfa drugs; title: Part II. World War II to 1960.; title: Antibiotics; title: Steroids; title: Drugs affecting the central nervous system: Antipsychotics and transquilizers; title: Newer vaccines; title: Clinical testing and reform of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act; title: Part III. The 1960s to the 1980s; title: Recent cardiovascular and antiulcer drugs; title: Recent antihistamines and antidepressants; title: Cancer and AIDS drugs; title: Biotechnology; title: Part IV. Finding tomorrow's medicines.; title: New and revised areas for pharmaceutical research; title: New methods of drug discovery