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| | Description | An exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present
"Always help, or at least do no harm." Following this simple yet revolutionary idea, Hippocrates laid the foundation for modern medicine over two millennia ago. From the Hippocratic Oath to the human genome, from Pasteur's germ theory to the worldwide eradication of smallpox, Medical Firsts brings to life 2,500 years of medical advances and discoveries. Organized chronologically, the book describes each milestone in a vivid capsule history, making it a fascinating and wonderfully readable resource for anyone interested in medicine's past progress and future promise.
Robert E. Adler, PhD (Santa Rosa, CA) has worked as a psychologist and science journalist. He writes about a wide variety of scientific and medical topics for New Scientist, Nature, and other publications and is the author of Science Firsts (0-471-40174-9). | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Robert E. Adler | | Hardcover: | 240 pages | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Publication Date: | March 29, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0471401757 | | Product Length: | 9.34 inches | | Product Width: | 6.5 inches | | Product Height: | 0.86 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.06 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 6.3 inches | | Package Height: | 1.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 9 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Don't be afraid!!! Jun 23, 2004
By Carol Wiseman
"'author of A Patchwork of Comforts"
As a lay person, I cautiously picked up Medical Firsts thinking I wouldn't understand a word. Surprise, surprise. I not only understood, but was blown away by what I didn't know. Adler made the lives and works of medical pioneers who laid the ground work for what we all take for granted come alive for me. Since I've actively repelled anything remotely connected to science all my life, almost every page had a "wow" factor.
The short chapters made it a lot more readable for me as a science challenged reader. With so much new info, I was grateful to pause after each one to appreciate the enormity of the discovery. I developed a reverence and gratituide to those who overcame enormous social barriers and fought, amazingly, the same hurdles that impede progress today - fear of change, fear of the unknown.
Thanks to Adler, I just might tiptoe back into new bookstore aisles.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Adler's Second Book on Firsts! May 18, 2004
By Tony Pini
Medical Firsts is a well written, interesting, and informative account of preeminent medical achievements over the past 2500 years. It is well worth reading whether you are a medical professional or simply have a curious mind. Robert Adler's style of writing is easy to follow, entertaining, and intelligent. This book is organized into twenty-eight bite-sized chapters, each of which is thoroughly researched and very fascinating on its own. After reading Robert Adler's first great book, Science Firsts, I had very high expectations. I was certainly not disappointed and you won't be either. I highly recommend this book.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Amazing and fascinating stories of how healthcare developed Apr 25, 2004
By David Elovitz
Any health care consumer -- or provider -- should be fascinated by these stories of how the health care we know to day came to be. It was amazing to me to read how much the ancients knew about the human body, and how accurately, and then how "medicine" descended into the miasma of the Middle Ages for over a thousand years before painstakingly, and with great difficulty, enduring personal animosity, crawling back to what the ancients knew, and beyond to what medical science knows today.All related in well-told stories about real people, described warts and all. Some of those people I had never heard about before but even the others of whom I had read elsewhere came alive as people, with new information and more background. I heartily recommend this book for anyone with an interest in healthcare, or in history. Not only informative, but very enjoyable reading.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
A great subject and a terrific read. Apr 08, 2004
I picked up Medical Firsts by Robert Adler on the strength of his previous book, Science Firsts--and I am definitely glad I did. Adler describes, in just the right amount of detail, the breakthroughs made throughout the history of Western medicine. Adler's subjects range from famous figures--Freud, Galen, Pasteur--to lesser-known revolutionaries like Varro and Ibn al-Nafis (who, to be honest, I'd never heard of). The chapter on the invention of anesthesia in particular really grabbed me--with our modern hospitals and painless procedures, it's easy to forget how important the discovery of ether was to modern medicine. (Oh, and not to forget the x-ray and the Pill!) Definitely a good read--highly recommended...
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Serendipitous Apr 09, 2004
It is great to have stories about medicine that I wouldn't have known even if I had stayed awake in all those pre-med courses. I enjoyed this book so much I had to give it away to an internist who found he could learn something new as well.
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