medicine

Reveals the true stories behind some of medicine's most important accidental discoveries, explaining how penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, x-rays, antidepressants, and Viagra were discovered while researchers were searching for something else.

In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.

Contains twenty-three essays in which authors debate issues related to medicine, discussing the problems confronting American medicine, whether alternative medicine is effectiveness, the benefits of new medical technologies, and the future of medicine.

Discusses the latest scientific breakthroughs regarding embryonic stem cells and the growing of new human tissues, and how this can help doctors treat human illnesses.

Describes potential uses for the ten-year, multimillion dollar Human Genome Project and its process of gene mapping, and includes web citation for an interactive map of chromosomes.

Studies how epidemics have changed history and how human behavior has contributed to the emergence and spread of disease.

A lavishly illustrated history of doctors and nurses from ancient Rome to the 1980s.

Discusses notable discoveries in medical history, including acupuncture, corneal transplants, and oral vaccination.

Simple text and photographs examine how doctors and nurses use science to treat patients, discussing vaccinations, medicine, machines that enable technicians to look into a person's body, and surgery.