MAKING MEDICINES: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICALS

Abstract

Credit for a well-produced volume goes to the editor, Stuart Anderson, who somehow pulled together 15 chapters by 14 authors into a coherent whole. [...]the two chapters written or cowritten by Anderson (chapters 1 and 14) are among the most readable. For more than 50 years, the British pharmaceutical industry made important discoveries (such as beta-blockers, H2 -receptor antagonists, and triptan drugs to treat migraine) while working within a system of socialized medicine.