You Bet Your Life From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
14.05.2024
Verlag
WorkmanSeitenzahl
272
Maße (L/B/H)
20.7/14/2 cm
Gewicht
250 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5416-0492-6
Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them.
Told in Offit’s vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. As we have learned from the COVID pandemic—the debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines—it’s all too easy to get everything wrong. Updated with a new introduction, You Bet Your Life is an essential read for getting the future a bit more right.
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