{"product_id":"the-age-of-cures","title":"The Age of Cures","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eBillion Dollar Molecule\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Antidote\u003c\/i\u003e, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the past thirty-five years, the acclaimed author Barry Werth has been covering one of the most consequential and underappreciated stories of our time--the rise of pharmaceutical companies, along with the science of drug research and the people who make it all happen. Now he delivers \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Cures\u003c\/i\u003e, a fascinating, in-depth history of the birth of the pharmaceutical industry in the United States, and reveals how that industry created the \"miracle drugs\" that have saved billions of lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the early part of the 20th century, patients routinely died from the flu, if they didn't contract a deadlier disease such as rubella, mumps, or polio first. But with advances in technology, the young talent at universities across the country, and the significant investment from a federal government eager to prepare for a second world war, medicine exploded in the 1930s to the 1960s to finally meet the needs of a sick populace. Vitamins, penicillin, wide-spectrum antibiotics, cortisone, a polio vaccine, and cancer chemotherapy revolutionized health care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Werth brings medicine's unsung heroes--including Max Tishler, James Conant, George Merck, Alfred Newton Richards, Vannevar Bush, and Selman Waksman--to life in this impassioned and compelling chronicle of the golden age of scientific progress. He also shows us how this crucial investment in science modernized the United States, establishing a scientific powerhouse for decades to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A lively work of science history, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Cures\u003c\/i\u003e is a case study of the values that made American research a model for the world, and a reminder of how society relies on investments in its scientists.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50020746789114,"sku":"9781668067833","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_c7afc1cd-2291-4ebe-a90d-9c1696d87fc0.jpg?v=1786137045","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/the-age-of-cures","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}