Table of Contents

1: Agents of infection
2: Out of darkness
3: From quinine to sulphonamides (by way of serendip)
4: Wonder drugs
5: The taming of tuberculosis and leprosy
6: The golden age of pills and profits
7: Progress against parasites
8: The poor relations: fungi and viruses
9: The spectre at the feast

About the Author

Professor Greenwood was formerly at St Batholomew's Hospital, London before joining the Department of Microbiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School in 1974, where he remained until retirement in 2000. He was Professor of Antimicrobial Science between 1989 and 2000, and is the former Archivist to the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. He has contributed more than 200 scientific articles and books on antimicrobial agents over 40 years.

Reviews

Enterprises such as this book require huge efforts from the author and pay great dividends to the loyal reader. For the origins of such drugs as avlosulphon and zanamivir, and many in between, this volume is a thorough and entertaining introduction. Society for General Microbiology