Gina Kolata
Hardcover: 552 pages
Publisher: Sterling; 1 edition (April 21, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1454902051
ISBN-13: 978-1454902058
Today we live longer, healthier lives than ever before in history—a
transformation due almost entirely to tremendous advances in medicine.
This change is so profound, with many major illnesses nearly wiped out,
that it's hard now to imagine what the world was like in 1851, when the New York Times
began publishing. Treatments for depression, blood pressure, heart
disease, ulcers, and diabetes came later; antibiotics were nonexistent,
viruses unheard of, and no one realized yet that DNA carried blueprints
for life or the importance of stem cells. Edited by award-winning writer
Gina Kolata, this eye-opening collection of 150 articles from the New York Times
archive charts the developing scientific insights and breakthroughs
into diagnosing and treating conditions like typhoid, tuberculosis,
cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and AIDS, and chronicles the struggles to
treat mental illness and the enormous success of vaccines. It also
reveals medical mistakes, lapses in ethics, and wrong paths taken in
hopes of curing disease. Every illness, every landmark has a tale, and
the newspaper's top reporters tell each one with perceptiveness and
skill.
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