Good chemistry
Subtitle: the life and legacy of valium inventor Leo Sternbach
By: Alex Baenninger ... [et al.]
Contributors: Baenninger, Alex
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Sternbach, L. H.; Benzodiazepines -- History; Diazepam -- History; Chemists -- New Jersey -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Each day, tens of millions of people around the globe take some form of benzodiazepine to calm their fears, to help them sleep, to overcome life-threatening seizures, or to assist them through the trauma of surgery. Good Chemistry tells the captivating story of the development of these medications and of the remarkable man who introduced them to the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. The biography ofLeo Henryk Sternbach. A cure for troubled souls.  Pearl of the Adriatic. First blossoming. A chemist of world renown. Upholding success; title: Pt. II. The drug that changed the world. The benzodiazepine story. The crippling cost of anxiety and the benzodiazepine revolution. A social history: putting benzodiazepine into perspective. The scientific impact of the benzodiazepines. The present and the future