EXPLORERS OF THE BODY: Dramatic Breakthroughs in Medicine from Ancient Times to Modern Science - Softcover
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How does the body work? This question has intrigued and occupied mankind since soothsayers first peered into animal entrails. From the primitive medicine of ancient Egypt to the mind-boggling achievements of modern laboratories, the healing craft has been a fascinating part of man's progress. Explorers of the Body is a history of medicine told through lively stories of the men and women who made the great breakthroughs in our understanding of human physiology: Edward Jenner, Gregor Mendel, Marie Curie, Jonas Salk, William Harvey, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, and many others.
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"I enjoyed the book very much and I think that its strong points are the hundreds of little known facts about medicine and early medical pioneers. As a physician, I thought that I had at one time or another come into contact with most of the important points of medical history, but it is obvious from Dr. Lehrer's book that I had just scratched the surface. I think that it is a fascinating book."
Richard Restak, M.D.
author of The Brain: The Last Frontier (Doubleday 1979)
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From Hippocrates, who is credited with turning the science of healing from the supernatural to the rational, to the pioneers of genetic engineering, EXPLORERS OF THE BODY is studded with the innovations, inspired guesses, shocking scandals, the jealousies, high drama, corruption and occasional dumb luck of the shapers of medical history. Anecdotal, accessible, as entertaining as it is informative, EXPLORERS OF THE BODY is popularly-written science in the lively tradition of Sagan's THE DRAGONS OF EDEN and Bronowski's THE ASCENT OF MAN.
It is healthy to have this readable antidote to the medical profession's sanitized portraits of itself...much fascinating information.
New York Times Book Review
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