1st Edition
Drugs That Changed the World How Therapeutic Agents Shaped Our Lives
Malaria and Antimalarials
The Painkiller, Aspirin
Ether, Chloroform, Cocaine, Morphine, Heroin, and Anesthesia
The Pill
Diabetes and Insulin
Smallpox and Vaccination
Vaccines to Combat Infectious Diseases
The Great Pox Syphilis and Salvarsan
Prontosil, Pyrimethamine, and Penicillin
AIDS, HIV, and Antiretrovirals
Organ Transplantation and Cyclosporine
Malaria, Madness and Chlorpromazine
Biography
Irwin W. Sherman is a Professor Emeritus, University of California at Riverside, where he carried out malaria research for more than 4 decades and published 150 scholarly papers and wrote 12 books. He graduated with honors from the City College of New York, received master’s and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University, did postdoctoral research at the Rockefeller Institute, the National Institute for Medical Research (UK), the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Australia) and was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Biologic Institut of the Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the College of Medicine, University of California at San Diego.
