Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a Scots-Irish writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972. Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics. He is the author of two successful series of short introductory books: Philosophers in 90 Minutes and The Big Idea: Scientists Who Changed the World. His book on the history of chemistry entitled Mendeleyev's Dream (2000) was short-listed for the Aventis Prize, and his works have been translated into over two dozen languages. He is the author of the best-selling The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, Napoleon in Egypt, and The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior: Leonardo, Machiavelli and Borgia - a fateful collusion (2009) and The Spirit of Venice: from Marco Polo to Casanova (2012). His recent works include The Periodic Table (2015), "Quacks, Rogues and Charlatans" (2015) and 'The Borgias' (2019) 'Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires' (2019). His work on economic history 'Dr Strangelove's Game' (2001) was chosen as a Google business book of the year. Strathern was a lecturer at Kingston University, where he taught philosophy and mathematics. He has one daughter, Oona, who is a writer and journalist. She lives in Vienna with her husband the German futurist and writer Matthias Horx [de], and their two sons.[
From Hippocrates to gene therapy, bloodletting to DNA
'I did almost believe the motion of the heart was known to God alone.' William Harvey
From selfless geniuses to self-promoting quacks, medicine more than any other science seems to have attracted all manner of human characters. Sometimes, as in the case of the bombastic sixteenth-century German Paracelsus, there is a curious blend of the two; at the opposite end of the scale is the quiet English country doctor Edward Jenner, whose vaccine eliminated the scourge of smallpox. Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, whose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history.
The origins of modern medicine date from William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood in the early sixteenth century. But its roots stretch back as far as Hippocrates in Ancient Greece, when medicine first began to emerge from religious and mystical practices and began instead to rely upon observation and reason.
Its path is filled with tales of rivalry and skulduggery, unsung heroism and miraculous accidents (Fleming's discovery of penicillin was so accidental he all but forgot about it). With natural philosophy, anatomy, grave robbing, plague, germ theory, nursing, syphilis, atomic theory, micro-organisms and SARS along the way, this is the ultimate story of human -- and humane -- achievement.
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Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, whose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history. Includes geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward Jenner, whose vaccination banished smallpox, scientific endeavour, such as the discovery of X-rays, and mistakes both
fortunate and fatal. With grave robbing, plague and germ theory, quackery, nursing, syphilis, micro-organisms and penicillin along the way, this is the ultimate story of human --
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