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The Pharmaceutical Century: The 1950s WebsiteThe Pharmaceutical Century: The 1950s Website
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American Chemical Society
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9th - 10th
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The Pharmaceutical Century: The 1950s

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This extensive review of the advances in medical research and technology in the 1950s credits the Cold War and Cold War thinking with promoting scientific research and government funding of that research, including medical issues. Find out about the advances in drugs, medical equipment, and treatments that got their start in the 1950s.

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Concepts

consumerism, gene therapy, government spending, polio, scientific research, dna, rna

Additional Tags

antibiotics research, artificial sweetener, baby boom, birth control, drug-testing, funding scientific research, nuclear medicine, nutrition research, polio vaccine, postwar economic boom, private funding of scientific research, the pill, war on polio, atoms for peace, cold war, jonas salk, linus pauling, national defense education act, national institutes of health, national science foundation, technological advances

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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