Body Holocaust: Antibiotics, Good Germs, and Disease Ecologies, 1940s-1950s

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Information: 215-873-8289 or bbl@chemheritage.org

This talk will examine how antibiotics and sulfa drugs affected medical research and practice and created new clinical problems because of the effects of the drugs on the "normal bacterial flora" of humans. It will show how the eradication of this flora came to be seen as a problem and a research tool within and beyond the clinic.

Funke Sangodeyi is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of science at Harvard University.