The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance

The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics by Scott H. Podolsky

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Overview: In 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 antibiotics are developed and prescribed. This sweeping chronicle reveals the struggles faced by crusading reformers from the 1940s onward as they advocated for a rational therapeutics at the crowded intersection of bugs and drugs, patients and doctors, industry and medical academia, and government and the media