The New York Times Book of Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New York Times Book of Medicine write by Gina Kolata. This book was released on 2015-04-21. The New York Times Book of Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 its 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, Alzheimers, 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 newspapers top reporters tell each one with perceptiveness and skill.
Love Medicine
Love Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love Medicine write by Louise Erdrich. This book was released on 2010-08-15. Love Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the reservation,the lives of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines are a testament to the endurance of a people and the sorrows of history.
The New York Times Book of Science
The New York Times Book of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New York Times Book of Science write by David Corcoran. This book was released on 2015-10-06. The New York Times Book of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Take a journey through scientific history via 125 outstanding articles from the New York Times archives. For more than 150 years, The New York Times has been in the forefront of science news reporting. These 125 articles from its archives are the very best, covering more than a century of scientific breakthroughs, setbacks, and mysteries. The varied topics range from chemistry to the cosmos, biology to ecology, genetics to artificial intelligence—all curated by the former editor of Science Times, David Corcoran. Big, informative, and wide-ranging, this journey through the scientific stories of our times is a must-have for all science enthusiasts. Contributors include: Lawrence K. Altman, MD * Natalie Angier * William J. Broad * Gina Kolata * William L. Laurence * Dennis Overbye * Walter Sullivan * John Noble Wilford * and more
You Bet Your Life
You Bet Your Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook You Bet Your Life write by Paul A. Offit. This book was released on 2024-05-14. You Bet Your Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From one of America's top physicians, a "riveting," "fascinating," and "timely" (Nature) history of risk in medicine Every medical decision--whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery--is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them. Told in Offit's vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. As we have learned from the COVID pandemic--the debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines--it's all too easy to get everything wrong. Updated with a new introduction, You Bet Your Life is an essential read for getting the future a bit more right.
The New York Times Book of Mathematics
The New York Times Book of Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New York Times Book of Mathematics write by Gina Bari Kolata. This book was released on 2013. The New York Times Book of Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a selection from the archives of the New York newspaper of its writings on mathematics from 1892 to 2010, covering such topics as chaos theory, statistics, cryptography, and computers.
