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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this remarkable, century-spanning history, and you can trace the evolution of our culture and the practice of medicine.
Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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- Ale
- 29-04-21
A must read for science lovers
Beautifully written book, amazing stories about live changing drugs together with meaningful data to make inform decisions about the pills we take
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- A C Hodson
- 24-10-22
Fascinating
I don’t even know why I bought this, it just struck me as interesting I don’t have a particular interest in the subject matter, but I’m glad I gave it a go. The whole subject is just fascinating, the history of drug development, the pitfalls, the triumphs and advances. It gives food for thought about one’s own decisions and casts a cautious eye over the workings of the drug industry. The book flows well, is very accessible but in depth enough to come away having learned a lot. The narration is also excellent.
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- andrew warton
- 21-01-22
Very informative
Easy for the layman to understand.
Particularly found the history accounts of drugs and medicines fascinating.
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- Benjamin Wright
- 02-03-21
facinating book
facinating and accessible text for anyone interested in how drugs have shaped human history and society. I would highly recommend this to anyone curious about the world of drugs from a scientific, social or historical perspective.
good narrator, well paced and good recoding quality.
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- Jill Desborough
- 29-11-21
Fascinating and informative
Beautifully read and extremely interesting. From early opium use which was a blessing and a curse, then on to other drugs down the ages, several of which were lauded as a great answer to addiction problems that arose from a previous lauded drug...and so the pattern continued over the decades, each " solution" seemingly more dangerous than its predecessor. Really informative.
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- Goronwy-Wyn
- 02-04-19
The world of "cures" or maybe not.
From bigotry to big pharma and the corporate profit associated with your desire to live for ever...or not.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-01-21
Pharma for everyone
Great narration, good inclusions and a levelheaded presentation. For the layperson and pharmaphile alike.
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- loaded
- 19-05-22
Very interesting and engaging
Anyone interested in pharmaceuticals and the history and use of drugs in general will enjoy this book. Ironically, I learned that the excellent narrator died of a heart condition very young whilst reading the section on heart medicine.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-01-21
interesting
Good book with interesting facts.
listened to it a couple of times and will probably give it another listen.
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- Mr Thomas G Hopwood
- 31-10-22
Interesting take on familiar topic
Enjoyable and interesting listen. Author plots an interesting course through medicine from the accidental to the increasingly purposeful and profitable world of modern pharma
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