The Medical Book
From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine
Published on 4. September 2012
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-1-4027-8585-6 (ISBN)
Description
Following his hugely successful "The Math Book" and "The Physics Book", Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology and immunology, Pickover intersperses obvious historical milestones; the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project, with unexpected and intriguing topics like truth serum, the use of cocaine in eye surgery and face transplants.
Reviews / Votes
"The writing is lively and the topics are varied . . . [Pickover] achieves his goals, and his brevity and breezy style should appeal to readers used to accessing information quickly on the Internet but who are still interested in picking up a book." --Library Journal "The writing is lively and the topics are varied . . . [Pickover] achieves his goals, and his brevity and breezy style should appeal to readers used to accessing information quickly on the Internet but who are still interested in picking up a book." --Library JournalMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Union Square & Co.
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
all in color
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 186 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4027-8585-6 (9781402785856)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Clifford A. Pickover
The Medical Book
From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine
E-Book
09/2012
Union Square & Co.
€11.99
Available for download
Person
Internationally renowned author Clifford Pickover has published more than 40 books, translated into over a dozen languages. He is an associate editor for several journals and the author of over 200 articles on various subjects. Dr. Pickover received his PhD from Yale University's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He holds over 80 US patents for inventions dealing with computing technologies and interfaces and his website, pickover.com, has received millions of visits.