Paul De Kruif: Microbe Hunters | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781684227822 | Microbe Hunters | Paul De Kruif | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023

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2023 Reprint of the 1927 edition. Here is the true story of the adventures of explorers in the fantastic world of the unseen. These explorers were like other men; they had curiosity; they groped, sometimes failed. They found truth, they fought death; a few were caught in ambush by the invisible assassins they were trying to trap. They were the pioneers in the struggle of mankind to conquer its worst enemies.
An international bestseller, translated into eighteen languages, Paul de Kruif's classic account of the first scientists to see and learn about the microscopic world continues to fascinate new readers. This is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered the microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif writes about how seemingly simple but really fundamental discovers of science-for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, for the first time, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it.
Contents: Leeuwenhoek -- Spalianzani -- Pasteur -- Koch -- Roux and Behring -- Metchnikoff -- Theobald Smith -- Bruce -- Ross vs. Grassi -- Walter Reed -- Paul Ehrlich.

Über den Autor

De Kruif began his vocation at the University of Michigan, obtaining a PhD. in microbiology. After graduation, he joined the military service, first as a private on the Pancho Villa Expedition in Mexico, and then as an officer in the Sanitary Corps during World War I, where he had occasion to meet many leading French scientists of the [...] 1925, de Kruif assisted Sinclair Lewis in the research for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the state of medicine in the U.S. during the 1920s, Arrowsmith, for which he received 25 percent of royalties. The very next year de Kruif published his own book, Microbe Hunters, which became a bestseller and still remains on recommended reading lists for phycicians and [...] Kruif supported the belief that healthcare should be made available to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay for treatments and services -something Detroit Free Press science writer Boyce Rensberger pointed out was "tantamount to treason among members of the medical community" in the 1950s, particularly the American Medical Association, which considered de Kruif a communist. In the words of Rensberger, de Kruif "fought an economic system that at the time withheld modern medicine's benefit for all but the wealthy."

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Biologie , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781684227822
ISBN-10:	1684227828
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	De Kruif, Paul
Hersteller:	Martino Fine Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul De Kruif
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.01.2023
Gewicht:	0,563 kg