Ergebnis für "The Good Patient" in Wissenschaft & Technik

Wer wünscht ihn sich nicht: einen Arzt, der alles, wirklich ALLES tun würde, um einen vor dem sicheren Tod zu retten? Da ist der Arzt, der einen Jungen zurück ins Leben holt, der mit einer Körpertemperatur von nur noch 17 Grad im Koma liegt. Da ist das Medizinerpaar, das eine künstliche Luftröhre baut, um einem todgeweihten Patienten ein normales Leben zu ermöglichen. Und da ist der Stationsarzt, dem es erstmals weltweit gelingt, einen Patienten von Aids zu heilen.

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the...

At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, 'good' viruses known as phages are infecting and destroying bacteria. These phages are the most abundant life form on the planet and have an incredible power to heal rather than harm. So why have most of us never even heard of them? The Good Virus reveals how personalities, power and politics have repeatedly crashed together to hinder our understanding of these weird and wonderful life forms.

“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless...