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Thomas Hager Ten Drugs (Paperback). Author: Thomas Hager. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book. Title: Ten Drugs. Format: Paperback. Further Details. Item Weight: 310g. Item Width: 21mm. Item Length: 139mm. Further DetailsTitle: Ten Drugs Condition: New Author: Thomas Hager Publisher: Abrams Press Subtitle: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine EAN: 9781419735226 ISBN: 9781419735226 Format: Paperback Release Date: 04/07/2020 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 139mm Item Width: 21mm Item Weight: 310g Genre: Medicine Description: 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. Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
