Aspirin e-bog
123,90 DKK
(inkl. moms 154,88 DKK)
_______________'An enthralling read ... fascinating ... the author pieces the jigsaw together in thriller style' - David O'Donoghue, Sunday Business Post'This biography of aspirin has some cracking factoids' - Scotland on Sunday'He tells a story which blends politics, big business, social and medical history, greed, incredible dedication and human folly in a lively page-turner read' - Irish Tim...
E-bog
123,90 DKK
Forlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Udgivet
15 december 2010
Længde
352 sider
Genrer
MMG
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781408820421
_______________'An enthralling read ... fascinating ... the author pieces the jigsaw together in thriller style' - David O'Donoghue, Sunday Business Post'This biography of aspirin has some cracking factoids' - Scotland on Sunday'He tells a story which blends politics, big business, social and medical history, greed, incredible dedication and human folly in a lively page-turner read' - Irish Times_______________The fascinating and dramatic story of aspirin, the wonderdrug which changed the worldThroughout the world we pop more than 200 billion of these little white pills every year. Aspirin is effective not only against everyday ailments, such as headaches and fever, but also as a preventative treatment for heart attacks, strokes, and even some types of cancers. Add to this its beneficiary role in a host of other conditions from Alzheimer's to gum disease, and you have a medicine of unparalleled importance to humanity, not to mention big business.Yet until 1971 we did not even know how Aspirin worked. In this fascinating and informative book Diarmuid Jeffreys follows the surprising and dramatic story of the drug from its origins in ancient Egypt, through its industrial development at the end of the nineteenth century and its key role in the great flu pandemic of 1918 to its subsequent exploitation by the pharmaceutical conglomerates.