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The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain - Health, Wealth and Authority (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain - Health, Wealth and Authority (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in
Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936-1939), and oppressed
by Franco's dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery,
penicillin's voyages through time and across geographies -
professional, political and social - were both material and
symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of
the general public, medical practice, science and industry,
creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced
little or no effect. Penicillin's lack of efficacy against some
microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a
decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of
development through scientific and technological achievements. This
historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between
the 1940s and 1980s - through the dictatorship to democratic
transition - explores political, public, medical, experimental and
gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.
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