Showing posts with label anglo-american rivalry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anglo-american rivalry. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

I write about wartime penicillin rivalry from a seemingly unique perspective : as a practitioner from the world of politics

It constantly amazes me that all the noteworthy books and academic papers to date on wartime penicillin have been written either by people from the worlds of medicine/science or by historians and economists of industry, science and technology.

Where, oh where, are people from the world of politics and political science when it comes to writing about the highly politicized saga of wartime (and postwar) penicillin ?

Here's why I ask :