The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain Health, Wealth and Authority /

• Main Author: Santesmases, María Jesús (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Subjects: History.; Medicine-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Social history.; History of Science.; History of Medicine.; History of Modern Europe.; Social History.

This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936-1939), and oppressed by Franco's dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin's voyages through time and across geographies - professional, political and social - were...