The Drug Hunters: An Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

This book provides a comprehensive behind the scenes history of the search for new medicines. The authors take us back to the labs to see how the discovery of medicine went from individual trial and error to industrial scale research.  By weaving in the history of what was happening around the researchers, the authors help us place these advancements in our own mental model of history. 

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