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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812813903321

Autore

Podolsky Scott H.

Titolo

The antibiotic era : reform, resistance, and the pursuit of a rational therapeutics / / Scott H. Podolsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4214-1594-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

616.92061

Soggetti

Antibacterial agents - United States - History

Pharmaceutical industry - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the stage : the origins of antibiotic reform -- Antibiotics and the invocation of the controlled clinical trial -- From sigmamycin to panalba : antibiotics and the FDA -- The limits to delimitation -- Responding to antibiotic resistance.