Saturday, February 5, 2011

Excerpts: Penicillin, Triumph & Tragedy



A book by Robert Bud (Oxford University Press, 2007)










































































































p140: ...With little time allowed for traditional caring, a doctor would use a prescription to provide moral reassurance as well as infection control. ...So, in decoding the patterns of penicillin use, we need to follow particularly the radical shifts in patients' attitudes to doctors that took place during the years after the Second World War.




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