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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