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Title Statement | Ten drugs: how plants, powders, and pills have shaped the history of medicine / by Thomas Hager. |
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Alternative Title(s) | How plants, powders, and pills have shaped the history of medicine |
Author | Hager, Thomas |
Additional Contributors | Lynfield, Yelva |
Publication | St. Paul: Minnesota State Services for the Blind, Communication Center,2020. |
Extent of Item | 1 DAISY audio disc (11 hours, 47 minutes) |
General Notes | Available from BARD courtesy of the Minnesota State Services for the Blind, Communication Center. Local book number: DB53185. |
Performance Credits | Narrated by: Yelva Lynfield. |
Audience & Ratings | For high school and adult. Female narrator. |
Contents | Introduction: 50,000 pills -- The joy plant -- Lady Mary's monster -- The Mickey Finn -- How to soothe your cough with heroin -- Magic bullets -- The least explored territory on the planet -- Interlude: The golden age -- Sex, drugs, and more drugs -- The enchanted ring -- Statins : a personal story -- A perfection of blood -- Epilogue: The future of drugs. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | Thomas Hager tells the exciting stories of ten drug discoveries with an international reach and plenty of unheralded geniuses. Hager believes that new drugs are greeted with too much enthusiasm; their unpleasant side effects invariably appear and the golden age of pharmaceutical breakthroughs may have ended fifty years ago. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Pharmacology--History |
Drugs--History | |
Medicine--History | |
Pharmaceutical technology--History | |
By Genre | Nonfiction |
Talking books |