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The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity-by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of-the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery.
The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor.
© 2017 Tantor Media, Inc. (Аудиокнига): 9781515984689
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Аудиокнига: 3 януари 2017 г.
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The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity-by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of-the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery.
The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor.
© 2017 Tantor Media, Inc. (Аудиокнига): 9781515984689
Дата на публикуване
Аудиокнига: 3 януари 2017 г.
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This book gives a glimpse on how drugs have been developed since beginning of humanity to nowadays. Pretty much the entire process always has been (and shockingly still is) a hit and miss of chewing, brewing and snorting and hoping it works. The randomness and luck of medical breakthroughs is mind blowing. The book is written and recorded in an understandable way and covers the stories of creation of aspirin, penicillin, antibiotics, ether, opiates, beta blockers, insulin, the pill and others. The book also clarifies why some drugs are made. This is an important book for understanding why drug research is responsive only to certain needs and neglects many diseases.
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