The Antibiotic Era | From Heroic Medicine to Magic Bullets & Penicillin

Описание: Explore the revolutionary rise of antibiotics in this lecture from Bodies, Systems, and Stories: A Critical History of Medicine.

In Unit II: The Transformation of Medical Practice (Lectures 7–14), Lecture 11 covers:

The shift from “heroic” medicine to targeted pharmaceuticals: How bleeding, purging, and other drastic interventions gave way to salvarsan, sulfonamides, and penicillin.

Paul Ehrlich and the “Magic Bullet”: The conceptual breakthrough that immune and chemical therapies could target disease precisely without harming the patient.

Industrial-scale drug production: From Gerhard Domagk’s Prontosil discovery to the mass production of penicillin during WWII, including the “moldy cantaloupe” breakthrough in Peoria.

Regulatory and safety lessons: The Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy and the resulting reforms that shaped modern pharmaceutical oversight.

Economic and social impact: How antibiotics fueled the rise of the pharmaceutical industry, transforming medicine, public health, and global economics.

Perfect for medical students, pharmacology enthusiasts, historians, and physician-scientists, this lecture combines historical narrative, scientific innovation, and ethical reflection to illuminate the antibiotic era.

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