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Science 19 May 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5469, pp. 1179 - 1180
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5469.1179
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PHARMACOLOGY:
Drug Stories--of Origins and Uses

A review by S. J. Enna

Pills, Potions and Poisons How Drugs Work
Trevor Stone and Gail Darlington
Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 492 pp. $27.50, £18.99. ISBN 0-19-850403-9.

Stone and Darlington provide a non-technical survey of how chemicals act in the body. Their chapters on major groups of medicines (organized around common disorders from allergies to schizophrenia), recreational drugs, and animal venoms are leavened with anecdotes on the people and research behind the discovery of various drugs.
The author is in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical School, 39th and Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160-7417, USA. E-mail: senna{at}kumc.edu

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