Author: Publisher: NIGMS
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Curiosity Creates Cures
Author: Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
Author: Loren RhoadsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136459
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unusual tales -- all true -- submitted from contributors around the country and across the world. Loren Rhoads, creator and editor of the magazine, has compiled some of her favorite stories from all ten issues in this sometimes shocking, occasionally gruesome, always fascinating anthology. This quirky book is filled with tales from ordinary people -- who just happen to have eccentric, peculiar interests. Ranging from the outrageous (attending a Black Mass, fishing bodies out of San Francisco Bay, making fake snuff films) to the more "mundane" (visiting a torture museum, tracking real vampires through San Francisco), this curiously enjoyable collection of stories, complete with illustrations and informative asides, will entertain and haunt readers long after the final page is turned.
Curiosity Creates Cures
Author: The Amazing Language of Medicine
Author: Robert B. TaylorPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319503286
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s giants such as Hippocrates and Osler, and in some truly unlikely sources. In this book you will learn the answers to questions such as: • What disease was named for an American space flight? • Do you know the echoic word for elephantine rumbling of the bowels? • What drug name was determined by drawing chemists’ notes out of a hat? • What are surfer’s eye, clam digger’s itch, and hide porter’s disease? This book can give you new insights into the terms we use every day in the clinic, hospital, and laboratory. Knowing a word’s history assists in understanding not only what it means, but also some of the connotative subtleties of terms used in diagnosis and treatment. The Amazing Language of Medicine is intended for the enrichment of physicians, other health professionals, students, and anyone involved in clinical care and medical science.
The Economics of Big Science 2.0
Author: Johannes GutleberPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303160931X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Happy Accidents
Author: Morton A. MeyersPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611451620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Afascinating and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth...
Rigor Mortis
Author: Richard HarrisPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 046509791X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An essential book to understanding whether the new miracle cure is good science or simply too good to be true American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research, but over half of these studies can't be replicated due to poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death sentence for terminal patients. In Rigor Mortis, Richard Harris explores these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes, personal stories, and interviews with the top biomedical researchers. We need to fix our dysfunctional biomedical system -- before it's too late.
Live Long and Evolve
Author: Mohamed A. F. NoorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203938
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"In Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civilizations. In these remarkable space adventures, does Star Trek reflect biology and evolution as we know it? What can the science in the science fiction of Star Trek teach us?"--Back cover
The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer
Author: Robert Gilmore McKinnellPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004286802
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA in such a manner that cancer results. Their work is of particular note because cancer causes more loss of life-years than the sum of all other causes of death—and, as the President’s (USA) Cancer Panel warned, environmental carcinogenesis is a form of cancer that has been previously “grossly underestimated”. The Millers’ cancer research led to tests that identify dangerous chemicals which in turn permits prevention and thus the control of human cancer.
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