Aspirin : the remarkable story of a wonder drug / Diarmuid Jeffreys.

• 1. If you examine a man ... -- 2. bark of an English tree -- 3. puzzle takes shape -- 4. birth of a wonder drug -- 5. Patents, patients, and sell, sell, sell! -- 6. chemists' war -- 7. Civilization could disappear ... -- 8. aspirin age -- 9. moral collapse -- 10. Soluble solutions and costly competition -- 11. So that's how it works! -- 12. Affairs of the heart -- 13. twenty-first-century wonder drug.

• "The story of aspirin goes all the way back to ancient Egypt, although how the drug works was discovered only in the 1970s. Its past embraces wars, epidemics, espionage, an Oxfordshire vicar, a forgotten Jewish scientist, the Industrial Revolution, a common tree, the Treaty of Versailles, the world's most powerful pharmaceutical companies, Auschwitz, a mercurial advertising genius, and much more. Bringing alive a compelling cast of characters in a dazzling journey across centuries, Diarmuid Jeffreys reveals how chance and design brought the drug into being as we know it at the end of the nineteenth century, and how intrigue, greed, and ambition combined to make aspirin one of the most commercially successful products of all time."--BOOK JACKET. 

Ämnesord

Aspirin  -- History (LCSH)

Aspirin  (MeSH)

Pharmacology  (MeSH)

Klassifikation

RM666.A82 (LCC)

615.783 (DDC)

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