Drugs looking for diseases : innovative drug research and the development of the beta blockers and the calcium antagonists /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vos, Rein, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1991]
Series:Developments in cardiovascular medicine ; v. 120.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The controlled clinical trial--a model for the intricate relationships between clinical medicine and drug research
  • The architecture of drug discovery
  • The discovery process
  • The representation of knowledge about drugs and diseases
  • A set-theoretical model of drug discovery
  • Experimental and therapeutic profiling in drug innovation: the early history of the beta blockers
  • Industrial research and beta blockade
  • Verapamil: dying drug or sleeping beauty?
  • Metamorphosis of a disease--profiles of angina pectoris in Anglo-American medicine
  • Targeting in drug research and the medical scene. The beta blocker project at Boehringer against the background of different views in German and Anglo-American medicine
  • The medical scene--different views in German and Anglo-American medicine
  • The influence of medical perceptions on targeting in drug research
  • Application of the theory of drug and disease profile
  • Search processes, profiles and therapeutic practice in drug discovery
  • The enigma of drug discovery.