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Download or read book The Medical Book written by Clifford A. Pickover and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical milestones--the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project--with unexpected and intriguing topics like “truth serum,” the use of cocaine in eye surgery, and face transplants.