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The New Medicines: How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold by Bernice Schacter
Call Number: On Display RM301.25 .S34 2006
ISBN: 027598141x
Publication Date: 2006
Do we have the pharmaceutical industry we need and want? Perhaps not, but it is the industry that our innovative and entrepreneurial society and responsive regulator system has given us. Knowing how it works may allow us to make better decisions as patients, caregivers, and citizens.
Keywords
History of chemistry, molecules, compounds, spices, textile fibers, dyes, explosives, ascorbic acid, glucose, cellulose, nitro compound and military, morphine and medicine, nicotine and cancer, opioid addiction, caffeine and addiction, nylon and silk, isoprene, salt, carbon compounds, malaria, aspirin, urea, camphor, morphine, strychnine, penicillin, vitamin B12, Taxol, Brevetoxin and quinine
People
H. Brand 1699 (Phosphorus-first "modern" element discovered since ancient times), H. Cavendish 1766 (hydrogen), W. Scheele 1771 (oxygen), D. Rutherfold 1772 (nitrogen), H. Klaproth 1789 (uranium), H. Davy 1808 (silicon),
Locations
Middle East (discovery of copper), Egypt (lead & iron)