Overview
- A collection of short stories detailing the histories of the most well-known drugs of our time
- Weaves together research from historical and archival sources, along with existing academic literature
- Requires no prior knowledge of the drug industry
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Popular Science (POPS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Aspirin to Viagra
Book Subtitle: Stories of the Drugs that Changed the World
Authors: Vladimir Marko
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44286-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44285-9Published: 07 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44286-6Published: 06 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: English translation of the original Slovak edition published by Ikar, Bratislava, 2018
Topics: Popular Science in Medicine and Health, History of Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology