Adams examines the interaction of wartime bureaucracy, the academic medical establishment, and home front civilians to present an account of the difficult biomedical decisions which accompanied the introduction of penicillin during World War II. He focuses on the government's Committee on Chemotherapeutic and Other Agents and its chairman, Chester Keefer, the final authority on whether a patient would or would not receive penicillin. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
