Launching the antibiotic era
Subtitle: personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics
By: edited by Carol L. Moberg, Zanvil A. Cohn.
Contributors: Moberg, Carol L.; Cohn, Zanvil.
Publisher: Rockefeller University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Dubos, René J. 1901-; Antibiotics -- history -- congresses.; Antibiotics -- History -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From microbes to medicine : gramicidin, René Dubos, and the Rockefeller / Rollin D. Hotchkiss; title: Oxford, Howard Florey, and World War II / Edward P. Abraham; title: Penicillin and luck / Norman G. Heatley; title: Chloramphenicol, Kuala Lumpur, and the first therapeutic conquests of scrub typhus and typhoid fever / Theodore E. Woodward; title: New remedies for an ancient infection : antibiotics and tuberculosis / George B. Mackaness; title: Two perspectives : on René Dubos, and on antibiotic actions / Bernard D. Davis; title: Friend of the good earth : René Dubos (1901-1982) / Carol L. Moberg.