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Science 24 August 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5841, pp. 1037 - 1038
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144953
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PHARMACOLOGY:
Tales of the Wonder Drug

Nicolas Rasmussen

Penicillin
Triumph and Tragedy
by Robert Bud
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. 340 pp. $55, £30. ISBN 9780199254064.
The author considers the discovery and deployment of penicillin (and related antibiotics) in the context of cultural and social changes over the second half of the 20th century.
The reviewer is in the School of History and Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. E-mail: n.rasmussen{at}unsw.edu.au

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