Book Review: Launching the Antibiotic Era: Personal Accounts of the Discovery and Use of the First Antibiotics

Abstract

From microbes to medicine : gramicidin, René Dubos, and the Rockefeller / Rollin D. Hotchkiss -- Oxford, Howard Florey, and World War II / Edward P. Abraham -- Penicillin and luck / Norman G. Heatley -- Chloramphenicol, Kuala Lumpur, and the first therapeutic conquests of scrub typhus and typhoid fever / Theodore E. Woodward -- New remedies for an ancient infection : antibiotics and tuberculosis / George B. Mackaness -- Two perspectives : on René Dubos, and on antibiotic actions / Bernard D. Davis -- Friend of the good earth : René Dubos (1901-1982) / Carol L. Moberg.