The Cure

di E.B Cohen (Autore)

E.B Cohen, 2026

For roughly the entire span of human existence, medicine did more harm than good. Physicians bled and purged their patients and explained it all with a theory of four bodily fluids that was elegant, confident, and almost entirely wrong. Half of all children died before they grew up. And then, in the space of a single long lifetime, nearly all of it changed. The Cure tells that astonishing story whole — in vivid, cinematic scenes and plain, patient explanation. Here is the Stone Age surgeon drilling a living skull; Vesalius stealing bodies from the gallows to correct a thousand years of error; the enslaved African Onesimus teaching Boston how to fight smallpox; Jenner and his milkmaids; Semmelweis, ruined for telling doctors to wash their hands; Pasteur racing a rabid dog's poison through the veins of a frightened boy; Fleming's lucky mold; Salk and the largest medical experiment in history; and a Hungarian scientist named Katalin Karikó, ignored for decades, whose stubborn work on a fragile molecule ended up in billions of arms during a pandemic. Warm, surprising, and gloriously readable, this is the one book for anyone who has ever wondered how we stopped dying of everything — and how the humble vaccine, the greatest lifesaver ever devised, drove a disease from the face of the earth for the first time in history.

• Autore: E.B Cohen
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: E.B Cohen
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235898790