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Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat : The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

ISBN-100805067906

ISBN-139780805067903

eBay Product ID (ePID)30277909

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMold in Dr. Florey's Coat : the Story of the Penicillin Miracle

Publication Year2004

SubjectPharmacology, History

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

AuthorEric Lax

Subject AreaMedical

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-056685

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"This is a fascinating history of penicillin that puts the work of Alexander Fleming into perspective and gives proper credit to Howard Florey and his colleagues at Oxford who actually developed the antibiotic and made it the most important medical discovery of the 20th century. But Eric Lax, a great biographer, has done more than that. He has written a compelling narrative, filled with colorful personalities, that reveals how science really works. He shows the collaboration and the competitiveness, the selfless efforts and financial incentives, the brilliance, rivalries, ambitions, jealousies and, yes, the dedicated heroism that all combine in a quest for glory and the Nobel Prize as well as for saving lives." Walter Isaacson "The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat is the engrossing story of the true Mother of All Antibiotics. This is a wonderful book, not merely about science, but the remarkably human process of discovery."-Scott Turow, "This is a fascinating history of penicillin that puts the work of Alexander Fleming into perspective and gives proper credit to Howard Florey and his colleagues at Oxford who actually developed the antibiotic and made it the most important medical discovery of the 20th century. But Eric Lax, a great biographer, has done more than that. He has written a compelling narrative, filled with colorful personalities, that reveals how science really works. He shows the collaboration and the competitiveness, the selfless efforts and financial incentives, the brilliance, rivalries, ambitions, jealousies and, yes, the dedicated heroism that all combine in a quest for glory and the Nobel Prize as well as for saving lives." Walter Isaacson " The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat is the engrossing story of the true Mother of All Antibiotics. This is a wonderful book, not merely about science, but the remarkably human process of discovery."Scott Turow, "This is a fascinating history of penicillin that puts the work of Alexander Fleming into perspective and gives proper credit to Howard Florey and his colleagues at Oxford who actually developed the antibiotic and made it the most important medical discovery of the 20th century. But Eric Lax, a great biographer, has done more than that. He has written a compelling narrative, filled with colorful personalities, that reveals how science really works. He shows the collaboration and the competitiveness, the selfless efforts and financial incentives, the brilliance, rivalries, ambitions, jealousies and, yes, the dedicated heroism that all combine in a quest for glory and the Nobel Prize as well as for saving lives." Walter Isaacson " The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat is the engrossing story of the true Mother of All Antibiotics. This is a wonderful book, not merely about science, but the remarkably human process of discovery."-Scott Turow

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal615/.3295654

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThe untold story of the discovery of the first wonder drug, the men who led the way, and how it changed the modern world The discovery of penicillin in 1928 ushered in a new age in medicine. But it took a team of Oxford scientists headed by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain four more years to develop it as the first antibiotic, and the most important family of drugs in the twentieth century. At once the world was transformed--major bacterial scourges such as blood poisoning and pneumonia, scarlet fever and diphtheria, gonorrhea and syphilis were defeated as penicillin helped to foster not only a medical revolution but a sexual one as well. In his wonderfully engaging book, acclaimed author Eric Lax tells the real story behind the discovery and why it took so long to develop the drug. He reveals the reasons why credit for penicillin was misplaced, and why this astonishing achievement garnered a Nobel Prize but no financial rewards for Alexander Fleming, Florey, and his team. "The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat" is the compelling story of the passage of medicine from one era to the next and of the eccentric individuals whose participation in this extraordinary accomplishment has, until now, remained largely unknown.

LC Classification NumberRM666.P35L39 2004