Experiment Eleven
Subtitle: dark secrets behind the discovery of a wonder drug
By: Peter Pringle
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780802717740
Subjects: Forschung; Research Ethics; Fraud in science; Research; Pharmaceutical industry; Treatment; Streptomycin; Tuberkulose; Soil scientists; Patents; History; Microbiologists; Moral and ethical aspects; Pharmakotherapie; Law and legislation; Professional Misconduct; Antibiotics; Tuberculosis; Discoveries in science; Economic aspects; Biography
Description: Documents the discovery of the first effective cure for tuberculosis and the efforts of a Rutgers College student to reclaim credit for his work from the department director who was wrongly honored and awarded a Nobel Prize for the finding.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The discovery. Zones of antagonism ; The apprentice and his master ; The good earth ; The sponsor ; A distinguished visitor ; The race to publish ; A conflict of interest; title: The rift. The lilac gardens ; The Parable of the Sick Children ; Mold in their pockets ; Dr. Schatz goes to Albany ; The five-hundred-dollar check ; A patent that shaped the world; title: The challenge. The letter ; Choose a lawyer ; The road to court ; Under oath ; The settlement; title: The prize. The road to Stockholm ; "A dog yapping at the heels of a great world figure" ; The drug harvest ; The master's memoir ; The copied notebooks; title: The restoration. Wilderness years ; The English scientist ; A medal.