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Title: The Drug Hunters
Subtitle: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Author: Ogi Ogas PhD, Donald R. Kirsch PhD
Narrator: James Foster
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-03-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 616 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine
Publisher's Summary:
The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of-the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial and error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery.
The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor.
Critic Reviews:
"A lively and sweeping look at the history of drug discovery and how difficult, expensive, and pivotal the search has proven to be." (
Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Aargh!
As a pharmacologist myself I found the book contained some interesting back stories on the discovery and development of certain drugs. The mechanisms described were simplistic to a fault in some cases. But the pronunciation of many, perhaps most of the drug and chemical names, was awful. For this and similar books we need readers with a background - or extensive tutoring in the field - so that a lay person will hear the big words properly.
Absolutely fascinating
I loved this book! It tells the stories of how different medications came to exist - a compelling mix of history, science, politics, and sociology. Good narrator. I highly recommend this book.
Fascinating
A very interesting book for anybody interested in medicine or pharmacy.
It turns out we are lucky a modern medicine can successfully treat so many diseases, since discovering medicines is still and has been, despite all the science advances, a lot of luck and serendipity.
History of modern pharmacology
Very interesting and relevant!
A a physician I use (on my patients) all of the drugs that this book covers. The book also covers pretty much all of the drug families. Should've read this much earlier.
Makes me glad I live in the 21st century
This is a great read for others like me who harbor a failed but absurdly optimistic scientist inside him or herself. This book highlights the immense luck involved with discovering and refining seeds of promise to produce true medical breakthroughs.
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Title: The Drug Hunters
Subtitle: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Author: Ogi Ogas PhD, Donald R. Kirsch PhD
Narrator: James Foster
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-03-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 616 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine
Publisher's Summary:
The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of-the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial and error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery.
The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor.
Critic Reviews:
"A lively and sweeping look at the history of drug discovery and how difficult, expensive, and pivotal the search has proven to be." (
Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Aargh!
As a pharmacologist myself I found the book contained some interesting back stories on the discovery and development of certain drugs. The mechanisms described were simplistic to a fault in some cases. But the pronunciation of many, perhaps most of the drug and chemical names, was awful. For this and similar books we need readers with a background - or extensive tutoring in the field - so that a lay person will hear the big words properly.
Absolutely fascinating
I loved this book! It tells the stories of how different medications came to exist - a compelling mix of history, science, politics, and sociology. Good narrator. I highly recommend this book.
Fascinating
A very interesting book for anybody interested in medicine or pharmacy.
It turns out we are lucky a modern medicine can successfully treat so many diseases, since discovering medicines is still and has been, despite all the science advances, a lot of luck and serendipity.
History of modern pharmacology
Very interesting and relevant!
A a physician I use (on my patients) all of the drugs that this book covers. The book also covers pretty much all of the drug families. Should've read this much earlier.
Makes me glad I live in the 21st century
This is a great read for others like me who harbor a failed but absurdly optimistic scientist inside him or herself. This book highlights the immense luck involved with discovering and refining seeds of promise to produce true medical breakthroughs.