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The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump

The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump

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Wydawnictwo Granta Books
Data wydania 06/08/2007
Liczba stron 304
Forma publikacji książka w miękkiej oprawie
Poziom zaawansowania Literatura popularna
Język angielski
ISBN 9781862079373
Kategorie Historia Europy
82.95 PLN (z VAT)
$18.66 / €17.78 / £15.44 /
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Dostawa 3-4 tygodnie
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In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England - from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho, to the great centres of power: the Privy Council, Whitehall and the Royal Medical Colleges. One man - alone and unrecognized - uncovered the truth behind the pandemic and laid the foundations for the modern scientific investigation of today's fatal plagues. John Snow was a reclusive doctor, without money or social position, who had the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day and work out that cholera was spread through drinking water. The book draws extensively on nineteenth-century medical, political and personal records in order to describe what is both an important breakthrough for medical science and also a dramatic story with a cast of colourful characters, from the heroic to the frighteningly incompetent. The book is also full of fascinating diversions into aspects of medical and social history, from Snow's tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth, to the Dutch microbiologist Leeuwenhoek's breeding of lice in his socks, and from Dickensian children's farms to riotous nineteenth-century anaesthesia parties. * 'Ripping yarns from the dawn of proper medicine' Ben Goldacre, Guardian

The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump

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