Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/xN7XbR The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain Health, Wealth and Authority By: María Jesús Santesmases Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9783319697178, 331969717X eText ISBN: 9783319697185, 3319697188 Copyright year: 2018 Format: EPUB Available from $ 89.00 USD SKU 9783319697185 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 both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillin’s lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.
