Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome PDF

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Free download PRETITLE Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome [Kindle Edition] POSTTITLE from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link 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).Direct download links available for PRETITLE Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome [Kindle Edition] POSTTITLE

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• File Size: 1292 KB
• Print Length: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 21, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00DNL312W
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Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome PDF

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.

By Tony Pini

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.

By David Elovitz