Good chemistry : the life and legacy of valium inventor Leo Sternbach
Alex Baenninger
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.
- vii, 166 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Pt. I. The biography ofLeo Henryk Sternbach. A cure for troubled souls. Pearl of the Adriatic. First blossoming. A chemist of world renown. Upholding success -- Pt. II. The drug that changed the world. The benzodiazepine story. The crippling cost of anxiety and the benzodiazepine revolution. A social history: putting benzodiazepine into perspective. The scientific impact of the benzodiazepines. The present and the future.