PENICILLIN: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 330
Description: The author sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural changes across the world. He examines the drug's contributions to medicine and agriculture, and investigates the global spread of resistant bacteria as antibiotic use continues to rise.