The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis - Paperback
by Thomas Goetz
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781592409174ISBN-10:1592409172UPC:9781592409174Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:History, Forensic MedicineSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCQXMPVNGS
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB--often called consumption--was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781592409174ISBN-10:1592409172UPC:9781592409174Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:History, Forensic MedicineSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCQXMPVNGS
Thomas Goetz is a science writer and health-care innovator. The cofounder of Iodine, a health technology company, he has served as entrepreneur in residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and executive editor at WIRED. His writing has been selected repeatedly for the Best American Science Writing and Best Technology Writing anthologies. He lives in San Francisco.
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