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Author Jeffreys, Diarmuid.

Title Aspirin : the remarkable story of a wonder drug / Diarmuid Jeffreys.

Imprint New York, NY : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004.
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  RM666.A82 J44 2004  AVAILABLE
Description x, 335 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-322) and index.
Contents I: If you examine a man -- The bark of an english tree -- The puzzle takes shape -- The birth of a wonder drug -- II: Patents, patients, and sell, sell, sell! -- The chemists' war -- Civilization could disappear... -- The aspirin age -- A moral collapse -- III: Soluble solutions and costly competition -- So that's how it works! -- Affairs of the heart -- A twenty-first century wonderdrug.
Subject(s) Aspirin.