Americans take millions of aspirin each year, little dreaming that the seemingly ordinary pill is one of the most amazing creations in medical history.
Aspirin is a drug so astonishingly versatile that it can relieve your headache, ease your aching limbs, lower your temperature, and treat some of the deadliest human diseases, preventing everything from heart attacks to cancer to strokes. And the history of the drug is just as surprising.
Rich in dramatic twists and discoveries, the story of aspirin begins in ancient Egypt, and embraces wars, epidemics, espionage, an Oxfordshire vicar, a forgotten Jewish scientist, the Industrial Revolution, a common tree, the Treaty of Versailles, the world's most powerful pharmaceutical companies, Auschwitz, a mercurial advertising genius, and much more. Bringing alive a compelling cast of characters in a dazzling journey across centuries, the author reveals how chance and design brought the drug into being as we know it at the end of the nineteenth century, and how intrigue, greed, and ambition combined to make aspirin one of the most commercially successful products of all time.
总是在电影里面看到美国普通民众对于常见药品的熟悉程度很高,经常有这样的镜头:一个人看到另外一个人拿着一瓶什么什么药,就猜测出患了什么病症。 自己生病的时候,除了感冒的时候去医院买点“白加黑”之类,都要跑到医院去问医生,医生说什么就是什么。 从来也没有想过这...
评分从遥远的古埃及到21世纪的医药行业的斗争,看起来真是颇有点穿越的感觉,不过也有点波澜壮阔。阿司匹林看起来更像是一个载体,作者很多的笔墨在描述拜耳公司啊。在阿司匹林命运的多个转折点,拜耳都起到了关键作用。 作为科普历史读物,我觉得这本书挺不错的。
评分 评分(《出版人》杂志专稿) 我们身边总有那么些貌不惊人的小东西,却在人们的平常生活中几乎掀起狂澜,堪称具有划时代意义、极具影响力的大发明。比如,现今全世界的人每年几乎要消耗两亿片以上的阿司匹林,在一定程度上关系着几多国家、几多平民的命运。可惜,当这小小药丸被人...
评分可读性性很强的一本科普读物,写得非常引人入胜。在历史的跨度上以一种药物为主线贯穿了若干科学史的大事件,甚至通过微观的方式让国内读者一窥西方历史观下的世界近现代史片段。整本书把复杂的生化问题解释得通俗易懂,确实是功力非凡,而译者利用了大量口语化以及流行化的...
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