Breen, Benjamin

Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.4 BRE

Kirsch, Donald R.

Summary: "The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter. The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity-- by chewing, brewing, and snorting--some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Otzi the Iceman, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 KIR

Angell, Marcia.

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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print 2005

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Angell, Marcia.

Summary: Angell watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.4 ANG

Ballard, Carol.

Summary: Describes, in simple language, with photos and illustrations, the science of plant life from the rain forest, and describes their powerful medicinal value.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2005

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 615 BAL