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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Santesmases, María Jesús (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: the West, Spain and the early circulation of penicillin
• 2. Fleming in Spain: the hero, the antimicrobial and the politics of public acclaim
• 3. Manufacturing penicillin: health, industry and gender
• 4. Smuggling: The management of scarcity and trade of penicillin as a post-war commodity
• 5. Modern Times: screening antibiotics and the factory line
• 6. A new promising drug: bacteria, antibiotics and marketing
• 7. Beyond healing: antibiotic resistance and regulatory regimes as agents in the Spanish transition to democracy
• 8. Penicillin in Spain, 1940s-1980s: Circulating health, research and gender
• 9. Final reflections.