Categories → #medicine
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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human HistoryHow pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning--and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate EpidemicIn fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New HumanThe discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells.
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Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the BrainMost people have never heard of prions. Indeed, most are only barely aware of the diseases caused by them, except, perhaps, for mad cow disease. Yet prions are the stuff of a revolutionary science? a science that might lead to cures for some of humankind's most devastating diseases
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have ToIt’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersFrom Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome.
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The Gene: An Intimate HistorySpanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.