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September New Release - The Medical Book


Title: Medical Book
             
Subtitle: From Witch Doctors to Robot 
Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History 
of Medicine

Author/s: Clifford A. Pickover

RRP: $39.99

ISBN: 9781402785856
Format:  Hardback, 528 pages
Dimensions: 215mm x 185mm

Publisher: Sterling Publishing

Aust. Release Date:September 2012

Book Description/Synopsis:
Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology and immunology, Pickover intersperses obvious historical milestones; the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project, with unexpected and intriguing topics like truth serum, the use of cocaine in eye surgery and face transplants.


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