Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Hager, Thomas

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing...
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Author: Thomas Hager
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Hager, Thomas

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

€28,12

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

€28,12
Author: Thomas Hager
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this remarkable, century-spanning history, and you can trace the evolution of our culture and the practice of medicine.

​Beginning with opium, the "joy plant," which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.

Author: Thomas Hager
Publisher: Abrams Press
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781419735226

About the Author
Thomas Hager is an award-winning author of books on the history of science and medicine, including The Demon Under the Microscope. He is a courtesy associate professor of journalism and communication at the University of Oregon.

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