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In quest of tomorrow's medicines / Jürgen Drews ; translated from the German by David Kramer.
LIBRA RS122 .D74 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drews, Jürgen, 1933-
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Research.
- Drugs.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Pharmaceutical technology.
- Drug Industry.
- Drug Approval.
- Technology, Pharmaceutical.
- Research.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Industry.
- Drug Approval.
- Technology, Pharmaceutical.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, [1999]
- Summary:
- Drews traces the history of modern drug development, describing the process by which new drugs are tested and brought to market, including a provocative look at how AIDS activism stimulated the approval process in the US. His commentary on the complexity of bringing innovation to the marketplace and his critical analysis of research in the pharmaceutical industry point to strategies that work.
- Notes:
- "Translated from the German Die verspielte Zukunft, by Jürgen Drews, published by Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, c1998"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0387985476
- OCLC:
- 39625397
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