Networks of Innovation
Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995
Seiten
1997
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-62620-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-62620-0 (ISBN)
Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on how private sector organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market new serum antitoxins and vaccines, and how their activities were related to complex, evolving networks of scientific, governmental, and medical institutions.
Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on the manner in which private-sector organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market new serum antitoxins and vaccines. The primary focus is on the H. K. Mulford Company, on Sharp and Dohme, which acquired Mulford in 1929, and upon Merck & Co Inc., which merged with Sharp and Dohme in 1953. By surveying a century of innovation in biologicals, the authors are able to analyze the conditions that either promoted or prevented creative changes in this important industry. They show how the activities of these three commercial enterprises were related to a series of complex, evolving networks of scientific, governmental, and medical institutions in the United States and abroad. This is the first such history to draw exclusively on sources internal to Merck, one of the world's leading innovators in modern vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on the manner in which private-sector organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market new serum antitoxins and vaccines. The primary focus is on the H. K. Mulford Company, on Sharp and Dohme, which acquired Mulford in 1929, and upon Merck & Co Inc., which merged with Sharp and Dohme in 1953. By surveying a century of innovation in biologicals, the authors are able to analyze the conditions that either promoted or prevented creative changes in this important industry. They show how the activities of these three commercial enterprises were related to a series of complex, evolving networks of scientific, governmental, and medical institutions in the United States and abroad. This is the first such history to draw exclusively on sources internal to Merck, one of the world's leading innovators in modern vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
Preface; 1. 1894: 'The foremost medical question of the day'; 2. The Mulford story; 3. A Sharp & Dohme interlude; 4. The virology network and a new programme at Merck, Sharp & Dohme; 5. Hilleman's innovations: first phase, measles-mumps-rubella; 6. Dangerous interlude, Marek's Disease adjuvant 65, the Swine Flu drama; 7. Transforming bacteriology: a second phase, meningitis, pneumonia, haemophilus, influenzae; 8. New networks, new leadership: the Hepatitis B vaccines; 9. Vaccine innovation in the nineties: new strategies, new structures, and public confrontations; A word about sources.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.8.1997 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Jane Eliot Sewell |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Plates, color |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-62620-X / 052162620X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-62620-0 / 9780521626200 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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