The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
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1. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen
4.00
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more
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"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
2. Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize … read more
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"Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being."-Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
3. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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4. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
5. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
6. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
7. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
8. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more
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"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
9. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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10. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
11. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
12. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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13. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
By: Bruce Goldfarb
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more
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14. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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15. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
16. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
17. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
By: Dean Jobb
3.62
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more
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18. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Morris
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions, A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick … read more
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19. Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
By: Paul Craddock
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children?And what role did a sausage… read more
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20. Sarjamurhaajia idästä: Neuvostoliiton aika
By: Katariina Bröms
3.26
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Ikkunat kii -podcastistaan tunnettu Katariina Bröms kertoo hyytäviä tositarinoita Neuvostoliiton pa… read more
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21. Huumesyyttäjä : rikosvastuun toteuttaja
By: Anna-Riikka Ruuth
3.46
Format: None pages, ebook
Satudarahin oikeudenkäynnin aikana kävi ilmiselväksi, että useat henkilöt olivat peloissaan. Yksi u… read more
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