Bowden, Mary Ellen. <br/><br/>
Pharmaceutical achievers :  the human face of pharmaceutical research / 
by Mary Ellen Bowden, Amy Beth Crow, and Tracy Sullivan. 
 - Phialdelphia :  Chemical Heritage Press,  c2003. 
 - xi, 220 p. :  ill. ;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Beginnings through the 1930s. -- Early pharmaceuticals -- Early pharmaceutical companies and the Pure Food and Drugs Act -- Vitamins -- Enzymes, hormones, and neurotransmitters -- Sulfa drugs -- Part II. World War II to 1960. -- Antibiotics -- Steroids -- Drugs affecting the central nervous system: Antipsychotics and transquilizers -- Newer vaccines -- Clinical testing and reform of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act -- Part III. The 1960s to the 1980s -- Recent cardiovascular and antiulcer drugs -- Recent antihistamines and antidepressants -- Cancer and AIDS drugs -- Biotechnology -- Part IV. Finding tomorrow's medicines. -- New and revised areas for pharmaceutical research -- New methods of drug discovery. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0941901300 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001055313 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101177391  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pharmacologists--Biography.<br/>Drugs--Research--History.<br/>Pharmacology--History--Biography.<br/>History, 19th Century--Biography.<br/>History, 20th Century--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RM301.25  / .B69 2003