Resources:
Print and Media

The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition
Mann, Charles C., and Plummer, Mark L. New York: Knopf, 1991.

Making Aspirin, one chapter in The World of Chemistry: Selected Demonstrations and Animations

Disc II (double-sided, 60 min.), Special Issue 4. The videodisc is published by JCE:Software, a publication of the Journal of Chemical Education, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1396, (608) 262-5153 (voice) or (608) 262-0381 (fax).

Medicines: The Inside Story

Sponsored by Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., a CD-ROM based on the traveling museum exhibition, that toured five major cities in the United States from 1996-1999. It is an interactive trip through a virtual gallery, which enables the viewer to learn about the history of medicines, learn about diseases and therapeutic approaches, follow a medicine from discovery to patient's bedside, make and test your own (virtual) medicine, and travel inside a human body to learn how a medicine works at the molecular level.

The Molecules of Pain

Gross, Michael. Chemistry in Britain, June 2001, 37, 27. This article discusses how compounds like capsaicin are helping us better understand the biochemistry of pain.

Murder, Magic, and Medicine

Mann, John. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

This book offers a lively telling of the story of medicine from ancient times to the present.

The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990

Marks, Harry M. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Read his discussion of the context and early days of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938.

SourceBook Version 2.1

Orna, Mary Virginia, Schreck, James O., and Heikkinen, Henry, eds. New Rochelle, NY: ChemSource, 1998.

This is a comprehensive four-volume resource, that includes sections on many chemical subjects, including medicinal chemistry and acid-base chemistry, among others. The medicinal chemistry section includes an alterative macroscale aspirin synthesis lab, that may be used in place of the microscale aspirin synthesis described in this module. SourceBook is especially useful for teachers of chemistry whose backgrounds are in nonchemistry subjects. This and other ChemSource products are available from the American Chemical Society. For more information, visit the ChemSource SourceBook web site.