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“dr thomas dormandy”

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  • Opium: Reality's Dark Dream

    by Dr. Thomas Dormandy ...
    Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And yet, for most of its long history, opium has also been humanity's most effective means of alleviating physical and mental pain. This extraordinary book encompasses the entire history of the world's most fascinating drug, from the first evidence of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Drug Hunters

    The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

    by Donald R. Kirsch, Ogi Ogas ...
    The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Vaccine Race

    Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

    by Meredith Wadman ...
    **"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times“Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—NatureThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Blue Dreams

    The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

    by Lauren Slater ...
    The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs.Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

    Revised Edition

    by James Le Fanu, MD ...
    In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube babies. Unquestionably, the medical accomplishments of the postwar years stand at the forefront ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Generic

    The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

    by Jeremy A. Greene ...
    The turbulent history of generic pharmaceuticals raises powerful questions about similarity and difference in modern medicine.Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts: why pay more for the same? And yet they are not quite ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Edited by V. Hess ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved in regulation, the forms of evidence and expertise mobilized, and means of intervention chosen to tame drugs in factories, consulting rooms and courts. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Cult of Pharmacology

    How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture

    by Richard DeGrandpre ...
    America had a radically different relationship with drugs a century ago. Drug prohibitions were few, and while alcohol was considered a menace, the public regularly consumed substances that are widely demonized today. Heroin was marketed by Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and marijuana was available as a tincture of cannabis sold by Parke Davis and Company.Exploring how this rather benign relationship with ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Adrenaline

    by Brian B. Hoffman ...
    Famous as the catalyst of the fight or flight response, adrenaline has also received forensic attention as a perfect, untraceable poison—and rumors persist of its power to revive the dead. True to the spirit of its topic, Adrenaline is a stimulating journey that reveals the truth behind adrenaline’s scientific importance and popular appeal. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Antibiotic Era

    Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics

    by Scott H. Podolsky ...
    A compelling analysis of nearly seven decades of antibiotic reform, framing our current efforts to stave off a post-antibiotic era.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLIn The Antibiotic Era, physician-historian Scott H. Podolsky narrates the far-reaching history of antibiotics, focusing particularly on reform efforts that attempted to fundamentally change how ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance

    by Ola Sköld ...
    This book, which is the translated version of a Swedish book, combines a general introduction of a variety of antibiotics with a more in-depth discussion of resistance. The focus on resistance in learning about antibiotics will help future scientists recognize the problem antibiotics resistance poses for medicinal and drug-related fields, and perhaps trigger more research and discoveries to fight ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • Forensic Toxicology

    Principles and Concepts

    by Nicholas T. Lappas, Courtney M. Lappas ...
    Forensic Toxicology: Principles and Concepts takes the reader back to the origins of forensic toxicology providing an overview of the largely unchanging principles of the discipline. The text focuses on the major tenets in forensic toxicology, including an introduction to the discipline, fundamentals of forensic toxicology analysis, types of interpretations based on analytical forensic toxicology ... Read more

    $71.09 USD