Name: The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes From an Uncertain Science (Ted) (in English)
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Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781471141850

portada The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes From an Uncertain Science (Ted) (in English)

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Physical Book

Author

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Synopsis "The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes From an Uncertain Science (Ted) (in English)"

The Laws of Medicine follows Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Dr Mukherjee as he investigates some of the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career - the cases that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. As a young medical student, Mukherjee discovered The Youngest Science, a book that changed the way he understood the medical profession and forced him to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a 'science'? Science must have laws - statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. Dr Mukherjee has spent his career pondering whether the 'youngest science' has laws like the other sciences, culminating in this treatise The Laws of Medicine. Law 1: Rumours are more important than tests. Law 2: The piece of data that does not fit your model is the most crucial piece of data that you own. Law 3: For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this book is a glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments rarely seen by those outside the profession.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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(Nueva Dehli, 1970) es profesor de Medicina en la Universidad de Columbia y oncólogo en su hospital universitario. Ganador de una beca Rhodes, se graduó en la Universidad de Stanford, fue investigador en la de Oxford y se doctoró en Medicina en la de Harvard. Ha publicado artículos en Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times y The New Republic. Su libro El emperador de todos los males (Debate, 2014) fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer en la categoría de no ficción.

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