The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
8
Narrator
3
Release Date
January 2017
Duration
7 hours 36 minutes
Summary
The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity-by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of-the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery.

The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor.
Reviews
Profile Avatar
Anonymous

This book gives great insight into how new drugs are discovered and developed.

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
This title is due for release on January 3, 2017.

Enter your email below to be notified as soon as it is available!

By clicking "Notify Me" you consent to receiving electronic marketing communications from Audiobooks.com. You will be able to unsubscribe at any time.

Already a member? Log In to add this title to your wishlist.
The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
This title is due for release on January 3, 2017
We'll send you an email as soon as it is available!

Already a member?
Log in to add this title in your wishlist
The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Please Log in and add this title to your wishlist.
The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

We will send you an email as soon as this title is available.

1 book added to cart
Subtotal
$15.99
View Cart