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Penicillin - Triumph and Tragedy (Hardcover): Robert Bud Penicillin - Triumph and Tragedy (Hardcover)
Robert Bud
R2,994 Discovery Miles 29 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' in recent decades these hopes have faded. Across the world, we are warned that widespread antibiotic abuse will inexorably erode the drugs' efficacy and our own earlier confidence in them. Penicillin pulls these different but conjoined stories into a compelling narrative spanning the second half of the twentieth century. Using a wealth of new research, Robert Bud sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural change across the world. He examines the drug's critical contributions to medicine and agriculture, and he investigates the global spread of resistant bacteria as antibiotic use continues to rise. Clearly written and highly topical, his book will be of great interest to historians, scientists, and anyone wishing to understand penicillin's seismic impact on modern life. Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy Curated by Robert Bud A new exhibition looking back over 50 years will explore changing attitudes to antibiotics and launch at the Science Museum on Thursday 10 May 2007 . In the 1950s antibiotics were cast as wonder drugs, but strains of bacteria resistant to penicillin were already widespread. They caused many deaths, most dramatically, infecting hospitalised victims of Asian flu in the autumn of 1957. Now we fear MRSA. How have attitudes, hopes and fears changed in half a century? Press information from Stephen Bromberg, Science Museum Press Office, [email protected] 020 7942 4352

The Uses of Life - A History of Biotechnology (Paperback, New Ed): Robert Bud The Uses of Life - A History of Biotechnology (Paperback, New Ed)
Robert Bud; Foreword by Mark F. Cantley
R1,568 Discovery Miles 15 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploring the rich and suprisingly overlooked complex of prophesies, industrial and scientific development and government programs, this book sheds new light on the expectations now held for biotechnology in a world-wide view spanning America, Europe and Japan.

Instruments of Science - An Historical Encyclopedia (Hardcover, New): Robert Bud, Deborah Warner Instruments of Science - An Historical Encyclopedia (Hardcover, New)
Robert Bud, Deborah Warner
R7,671 Discovery Miles 76 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


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Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science

Penicillin - Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback): Robert Bud Penicillin - Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
Robert Bud
R1,425 Discovery Miles 14 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of "superbugs" in recent decades these hopes have faded. Across the world, we are warned that widespread antibiotic abuse will inexorably erode the drugs' efficacy and our own earlier confidence in them.
Penicillin pulls these different but conjoined stories into a compelling narrative spanning the second half of the twentieth century. Using a wealth of new research, Robert Bud sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural change across the world. He examines the drug's critical contributions to medicine and agriculture, and he investigates the global spread of resistant bacteria as antibiotic use continues to rise. Clearly written and highly topical, his book will be of great interest to historians, scientists, and anyone wishing to understand penicillin's seismic impact on modern life.

Wie Wir Das Leben Nutzbar Machten - Ursprung Und Entwicklung Der Biotechnologie (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the... Wie Wir Das Leben Nutzbar Machten - Ursprung Und Entwicklung Der Biotechnologie (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1995 ed.)
Robert Bud
R1,748 Discovery Miles 17 480 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Kaum ein anderes Wort wird weltweit kontroverser diskutiert als der Begriff "Biotechnologie." 1988 wurden in den Niederlanden 1 700 Er wachsene telefonisch nach ihrem Verstandnis des Wortes Biotechnologie befragt. Mehr als der Halfte von ihnen war der Begriff bekannt, obwohl ein Drittel keine klare Vorstellung von seiner Bedeutung hatte. Derarti ge Ergebnisse wurden in allen Landern der Erde gefunden. T rotz groger Obereinstimmung was die Bedeutung angeht, waren sich selbst Experten bei dieser Frage uneinig. Einige verbinden damit den zunehmenden Einsatz von Mikroorganismen bei der industriellen Produktion. Andere verstehen darunter das Ergebnis rekombinanter DNS-Techniken, die jungst von wissensdurstigen Genetikern perfektioniert wurden. Die Meinungen sind geteilt. Einerseits gilt "Biotechnologie" als ein Mittel zur Produktion von Wohlstand, andererseits wird eine Bedrohung der Wurzeln unseres ethischen Systems befurchtet. Einmal als Ergebnis von Zynismus, Unreife und schlichten Meinungsverschiedenheiten erkannt, sind solche Unterschiede aufgegeben worden. Dennoch waren sie Schlusselmerkmale eines Forschungsgebietes, das sich zwischen techno logischen Fahigkeiten und wissenschaftlicher Entwicklung bewegte. Die "Biotechnologie" ist, ebenso wie die Computerwissenschaften und die Materialforschung, eine der wenigen T echnologien, deren schnellen Fortschritte im Prinzip als revolutionar angesehen werden. Dennoch existiert merkwurdigerweise keine etablierte Literatur, mit der ein histo rischer Zusammenhang hergestellt werden kann. Schaut man in die Ver gangenheit, kommen einem zuerst altertumliche Prozesse wie Backen und Brauen in den Sinn. Zwischen dem Hypermodernen und dem Al tertum existiert allerdings nur wenig Raum fur Geschichte. Obwohl oft als neu bezeichnet, wurde der Begriff "Biotechnologie" schon im J ahr der Russischen Revolution 1917 gepragt."

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