Marko From Aspirin to Viagra

Stories of the Drugs that Changed the World
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-44286-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Springer Praxis Books

From Aspirin to Viagra, insulin to penicillin, and vaccines to vitamin supplements, drugs have become part of our everyday lives. This staggering global industry wasn’t born overnight; advancements in pharmaceutical science have been happening for a long while, over the course of decades and even centuries.This book tells the history of ten prominent substances and how they came to be common household names. It shows how the creation of such influential drugs often began with the right person at the exactly right—or wrong!— time. The chapters tell the stories of geniuses and charlatans; scholars and amateurs; advances won through hard work or pure luck; and ultimately, the handful of resounding successes that revolutionized a global industry.Beyond the pioneers of the most famous drugs in our culture, the book analyzes how our perspective on medical treatment has shifted over the decades. Modern standards for testing and administering substances have created a new set of advantages, setbacks, and stigmas, all of which are discussed herein.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marko, Vladimir

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Dedication About the Author Preface 1. Aspirin          Story 1.1: The curious reverend and the bark of the willow          Story 1.2: The three fathers and the two miracle drugs          Story 1.3: The industrialist and his business          Story 1.4: The great German patriot and the Great Phenol Plot          Story 1.5: The man from New Zealand and marketing magic          Story 1.6: The country doctor and medicinal gum          Concluding remarks 2. Quinine          Story 2.1: The Countess of Chinchón and the Jesuit Bark          Story 2.2: The successful charlatan and the miracle medicine          Story 2.3: The two friends and the yellow cinchona          Story 2.4: The unlucky adventurer and the alpacas          Story 2.5: The two opposing scientists and the mosquitoes with spotted wings          Concluding remarks         3. Vitamin C          Story 3.1: The famous admiral and scurvy          Story 3.2: The ship’s doctor and Murphy’s Law          Story 3.3: The snob and the 7,000 cannons          Story 3.4: The Norwegian hygienist and guinea pigs          Story 3.5: The Hungarian politician and Hungarian paprika          Story 3.6: The hardworking chemist and the role of wine flies          Concluding remarks           4. Insulin          Story 4.1: The bold experimenter and sweet urine          Story 4.2: The military doctor in Barbados and various diets          Story 4.3: Two diabetologists, starvation, and Elizabeth the Iconic          Story 4.4: The vivid scientist from Mauritius and the elixir of youth          Story 4.5: The aspiring amateur and the elixir of life          Story 4.6: The strong-minded scientist and her four hands          Concluding remarks           5. Penicillin          Story 5.1: The doctor with stained hands and the magic bullet          Story 5.2: The rejected Nobel Prize and saving young Hildegard          Story 5.3:The Scottish bacteriologist and his return from vacation          Story 5.4: Three Englishmen and the benefits of America          Story 5.5: Stubborn Andy and the need for meat          Story 5.6: The renowned health professional and ethical blindness          Concluding remarks 6. The Pill          Story 6.1: Madame Restell and Fifth Avenue abortions          Story 6.2: The revolutionary and birth control          Story 6.3: The controversial biologist and his controversial experiments          Story 6.4: The Catholic gynecologist and his futile hope          Story 6.5: The three brilliant chemists          Concluding remarks 7. Chlorpromazine          Story 7.1: The enlightened doctor and freeing the insane          Story 7.2: Many attempts and difficult beginnings for treatment          Story 7.3: A French thinker and his lytic cocktail          Story 7.4: A professor, his assistant, and psychiatric penicillin          Story 7.5: Psychoanalysis and the need to know foreign languages          Concludingremarks 8. Prozac          Story 8.1: Two psychiatrists, a singing cyclist and dancing patients          Story 8.2: Three chemists and three neurotransmitters          Story 8.3: The role of the medicine box          Story 8.4: How we forgot to grieve          Concluding remarks 9. Viagra          Story 9.1: The autodidact of Delft and the penis’s status in history          Story 9.2: The son of a Russian vodka maker and elixirs of youth          Story 9.3: The biggest charlatan and the deepest desires of men          Story 9.4: A urologist drops his pants and what men are willing to endure          Story 9.5: The big medicine producer and the farmer’s beautiful daughter          Concluding remarks 10. Vaccines          Story 10.1: A beautiful aristocrat and the Ottoman method          Story 10.2: A wise farmer, a famous doctor and how vaccination got its name          Story 10.3: A sick slave and the chain transfer of vaccines across the Atlantic          Story 10.4: Two greats and only one Nobel Prize          Story 10.5: “Sir Almost Wright” and military brains          Story 10.6: The Righteous Among the Nations and lice feeders          Story 10.7: The Somali cook and a huge victory          Story 10.8: A gastroenterologist and one of the worst hoaxes in medicine          Concluding remarks 11. Conclusion         Selected Bibliography           Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vladimir Marko was born in 1952 in Košice, Eastern Slovakia. He studied organic chemistry at Slovak Technical University and biochemistry at Comenius University, both in Bratislava. He finished his university studies in 1975 and PhD. studies in 1980.From 1980 to 1991, Marko worked as a researcher in the Institute of Experimental Pharmacology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. As a member of the Department of Pharmacokinetics, he was responsible for the determination of drugs in biological fluids. In that time, he published several scientific articles and was also an editor of a book dealing with drug determinations (Determination of Beta-Blockers in Biological Material, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1989).In 1994, Marko began working for the Danish-based pharmacological company Lundbeck, first as a representative and later as the managing director for Slovakia. After nearly 20 years there, he retired in 2013.