| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 36 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by James Foster. |
| Summary |
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-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of-the art laboratories staffed by PhD's to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery. The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and Aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Drugs -- Research -- History.
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Pharmacology -- History.
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| Added Author |
Ogas, Ogi, author.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781515994688 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1515994686 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11798098 |
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