Making Medicine
surprising stories from the history of drug discovery
$53.11
- Hardcover
250 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2022
Summary
How do scientists design the medicine we use to improve our lives? It turns out that many are happy accidents or overlooked mixtures of carbon and hydrogen that go on to not only improve the lives of people the world over, but become million- and billion-dollar makers for pharmaceutical companies.
In Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery, author Keith Veronese examines eighteen different molecules and their unlikely discovery – or in many case…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781633887534 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1633887537 |
| Author: | Keith Veronese |
| Publisher: | Prometheus Books |
| Imprint: | Prometheus Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 250 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 503g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 160mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Keith Veronese
Keith Veronese received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and is currently a freelance science writer. Veronese previously wrote for Gawker Media’s io9, a science news website. His work has also appeared Wired, Paste and Gawker Media sites like Lifehacker, Gawker, Kotaku, and Jezebel, among others. He is the author of two books, Plugged In, which details the work of comic book creators moonlighting in the video game industry, and Rare: The High Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth, which focuses on the use of rare earth metals in our daily lives and the geopolitical issues complicating their discovery.
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