From aspirin to Viagra stories of the drugs that changed the world /: stories of the drugs that changed the world. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vladimir Marko.
• Other Names: Marko, Vladimir
• Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Preface -- 1: Aspirin -- Story 1.1: The curious reverend and the bark of the willow -- Story 1.2: The three fathers and the two miracle drugs -- Story 1.3: The industrialist and his business -- Story 1.4: The great German patriot and the Great Phenol Plot -- Story 1.5: The man from New Zealand and marketing magic -- Story 1.6: The country doctor and medicinal gum -- Concluding remarks -- 2: Quinine -- Story 2.1: The Countess of Chinchón and the Jesuit Bark -- Story 2.2: The successful charlatan and the miracle medicine Story 2.3: The two friends and the yellow cinchona -- Story 2.4: The unlucky adventurer and the alpacas -- Story 2.5: The two opposing scientists and the mosquitoes with spotted wings -- Concluding remarks -- 3: Vitamin C -- Story 3.1: The famous admiral and scurvy -- Story 3.2: The ship's doctor and Murphy's Law -- Story 3.3: The snob and the 7, 000 cannons -- Story 3.4: The Norwegian hygienist and guinea pigs -- Story 3.5: The Hungarian politician and Hungarian paprika -- Story 3.6: The hardworking chemist and the role of wine flies -- Concluding remarks -- 4: Insulin Story 4.1: The bold experimenter and sweet urine -- Story 4.2: The military doctor in Barbados and various diets -- Story 4.3: Two diabetologists, starvation, and Elizabeth the Iconic -- Story 4.4: The vivid scientist from Mauritius and the elixir of youth -- Story 4.5: The aspiring amateur and the elixir of life -- Story 4.6: The strong-minded scientist and her four hands -- Concluding remarks -- 5: Penicillin -- Story 5.1: The doctor with stained hands and the magic bullet -- Story 5.2: The rejected Nobel Prize and saving young Hildegard Story 5.3: The Scottish bacteriologist and his return from vacation -- Story 5.4: Three Englishmen and the benefits of America -- Story 5.5: Stubborn Andy and the need for meat -- Story 5.6: The renowned health professional and ethical blindness -- Concluding remarks -- 6: The Pill -- Story 6.1: Madame Restell and Fifth Avenue abortions -- Story 6.2: The revolutionary and birth control -- Story 6.3: The controversial biologist and his controversial experiments -- Story 6.4: The Catholic gynecologist and his futile hope -- Story 6.5: The three brilliant chemists The Octane Number and the Black Head -- The Bridge Grandmaster and 106 Years of Prison -- The Father Who Would Rather Be a Mother -- Concluding remarks -- 7: Chlorpromazine -- Story 7.1: The enlightened doctor and freeing the insane -- Story 7.2: Many attempts and difficult beginnings for treatment -- Story 7.3: A French thinker and his lytic cocktail -- Story 7.4: A professor, his assistant, and psychiatric penicillin -- Story 7.5: Psychoanalysis and the need to know foreign languages -- Concluding remarks -- 8: Prozac -- Story 8.1: Two psychiatrists, a singing cyclist, and dancing patients
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 615.109; Drugs -- History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030442866; 3030442861
• Related ISBNs: 3030442853; 9783030442859
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.