The Essence of Invention
Medicine and the Joy of Creativity
Published on 25. June 2024
296 pages
978-1-4597-5405-8 (ISBN)
Description
- Celebrating the medical inventors and innovators who bring creative energy and passion to change health outcomes
- Similar to Eric Weiner's The Geography of Genius, explores how the right environment is required for invention to occur
- Explores how the same kind of energy that drove Johnny Rotten or Van Gogh or Michael Jordan, in music or art or sport, can manifest in medicine as inventiveness and medical devices
- Focuses on the history of medical invention and highlights key figures, exploring the key traits of inventors and the importance of a collaborative environment
- Author is a medical doctor and prolific inventor, with 81 patents, who has started 8 medical device companies, published several textbooks, and is ranked in the top 1 percent of Research Gate's 15 million academic members
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08/2024
Dundurn Press
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Dr. Kieran Murphy is a pioneering clinician, a renowned researcher, an esteemed teacher, and a prolific inventor. He is also an author, public speaker, and race car driver. Dr. Murphy holds eighty-one patents and his devices - such as the Murphy needle and Murphy cement - are used regularly around the world. He lives in Toronto.
