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发表于2024-11-23
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Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth is a hilarious celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind, written with all the wit, humour and eye for the beauties of nature -- and machinery and scientific equipment -- that have gained Trevor Norton a cult following and critical acclaim.
Many have followed the advice of the great Victorian scientist Jack Haldane to "never experiment on an animal if a man will do" and "never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn't do yourself." He and his father inhaled poisonous gasses to test the efficacy of the prototype gas mask they had invented. When breathing gasses under pressure he suffered the smoking ears and screaming teeth of the title.
The stories are astonishing, disturbing or absurd -- the Marquis de Sade meets Monty Python. John Hunter pioneered self-experimentation and deliberately infected himself with venereal diseases by the puss transference method and gave his name to chancre of the penis. The zoologist Frank Buckland made a concentrated effort to widen the nation's diet by personally testing everything that crossed his path, from boiled elephant's trunk to bluebottles. He published recipes for such delicacies as slug soup. Some medics deliberately contracted deadly blood diseases in the hope of finding cures. Then there was the surgeon who got the sack and won the Nobel prize for thrusting a catheter into his own beating heart.
Trevor Norton writes that self-experimentation is still a component of much scientific research. In our health and safety obsessed society, we need people who are willing to risk themselves to make life safer for us.
TREVOR NORTON is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool, having retired from the Chair of Marine Biology. He has published widely on ecological topics. He is also an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Manx Studies on the Isle of Man where he lives. His much acclaimed books include Stars Beneath the Sea, Reflections on a Summer Sea and Under Water to Get out of the Rain.
这好像是第一本我看完后觉得需要减星的书。虎头蛇尾太要命,前三章的冷幽默强吐槽在后面几章里越来越难寻觅,主题也从“虐己”——把自己当小白鼠,转到了“虐人”——吃人的鲨鱼、潜入深海的幽闭、升入平流层后骇人的高度等等。不过话说回来,于大处能让人觉得眼界顿开、于小处可让读者会心一笑的这么一本科普小书,有什么理由去黑它呢?
评分这好像是第一本我看完后觉得需要减星的书。虎头蛇尾太要命,前三章的冷幽默强吐槽在后面几章里越来越难寻觅,主题也从“虐己”——把自己当小白鼠,转到了“虐人”——吃人的鲨鱼、潜入深海的幽闭、升入平流层后骇人的高度等等。不过话说回来,于大处能让人觉得眼界顿开、于小处可让读者会心一笑的这么一本科普小书,有什么理由去黑它呢?
评分甚是有趣。调侃中隐藏着悲壮。文字尽显英国式的促狭,哈哈。
评分这好像是第一本我看完后觉得需要减星的书。虎头蛇尾太要命,前三章的冷幽默强吐槽在后面几章里越来越难寻觅,主题也从“虐己”——把自己当小白鼠,转到了“虐人”——吃人的鲨鱼、潜入深海的幽闭、升入平流层后骇人的高度等等。不过话说回来,于大处能让人觉得眼界顿开、于小处可让读者会心一笑的这么一本科普小书,有什么理由去黑它呢?
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评分非常有趣的一本书,以至于发誓不写书评的我也不得不来唠叨两句。夹杂在《论美国的民主》,《西班牙变奏曲》以及《偶发空缺》的间歇以极快的速度读完这本书——以往只有在看小说的时候才会看得这么快,这本书带给我的愉悦度堪比《自私的基因》。 八卦猎奇是一方面,作为生物学教...
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评分这是一本让人拿起就不想放下的那种书。不过因为作者是英国人,有一些地方是英式幽默,很多的例子都是英国的例子;还有一战和二战时的例子都是站在英国的立场写的,带有一点主观色彩,这种立场或许和原版追求销量有关吧,中国读者看时能充分了解英式幽默能选择过滤就够了。 以...
Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024