The elusive magic bullet : the search for the perfect drug /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mann, J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:

MARC

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300 |a x, 209 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-204) and index. 
505 0 |a Fighting bacteria -- The Black Death -- Miasmata, animalcules, and mal aria -- Antiseptics -- From dyes to sulphonamides : the first antibacterials -- Penicillins : early ideas of antibiosis -- Penicillins : Fleming's serendipitous discovery -- Chain and Florey and the penicillin production line -- Semi-synthetic penicillins and the growing problem of resistance -- The mould that grew on sewage : evolution of the cephalosporins -- The mode of action of penicillins and cephalosporins -- The white plague and its treatment -- More 'treasures' from Streptomyces -- The rise of the 'superbugs' -- Antiviral treatments -- What is a virus? -- Antibodies : nature's magic bullets -- Smallpox -- Rabies -- Polio -- Gene technology -- Coughs and colds and influenza -- Influenza : the disease -- Influenza : the treatments -- The common cold -- Herpes : cold sores and chicken pox -- Aids : history of the disease -- Aids : prevention and treatment -- Haemorrhagic fever viruses -- Cancer and anticancer drugs -- Aetiology -- Cancer chemotherapy -- From poison gas to platinum drugs -- Beating leukaemia -- Other antimetabolites -- Periwinkles, may-apples, and yew trees : anticancer drugs from plants -- Microorganisms also produce antitumour agents -- Antitumour drugs from the sea -- Turning off hormonal influences -- Breast cancer -- Prostate cancer -- Biological warfare : inventing real magic bullets -- Prevention is better than cure -- Magic bullets : still elusive after all these years. 
650 2 |a Pharmaceutical Preparations  |x history. 
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650 2 |a Antineoplastic Agents  |x history. 
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