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Thomas Hager writes dramatic stories about the ways in which science and technology shape our world. After a long career in science freelancing and magazine editing, he wrote "Aging Well" with his wife Lauren Kessler (1990), then "Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling," which was named one of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books of the Year, 1995. After several more Pauling-related projects and a stint as a book publisher, he wrote "The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug" (2006), called "fascinating" (Los Angeles Times), "a grand story" (Wall St. Journal), and "surprisingly entertaining" (Entertainment Weekly). This was followed by "The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Discovery that Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler," a finalist for the National Academies Communications Award, Borders "Original Voices" selection, and one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2008.

Hager's research travels have taken him from the deserts of Peru and Chile to the urban heart of Tokyo, from the hushed libraries of Paris and London to the packed streets of the world's most crowded city (that would be Dhaka, Bangladesh). He is a native Oregonian, and lives in the wooded hills near Eugene.


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The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In The Demon Under the Microscope , Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.

Sulfa saved millions of lives—among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.—but its real effects are even more far reaching. Sulfa changed the way new drugs were developed, approved, and sold; transformed the way doctors treated patients; and ushered in the era of modern medicine. The very concept that chemicals created in a lab could cure disease revolutionized medicine, taking it from the treatment of symptoms and discomfort to the eradication of the root cause of illness.

A strange and colorful story, The Demon Under the Microscope illuminates the vivid characters, corporate strategy, individual idealism, careful planning, lucky breaks, cynicism, heroism, greed, hard work, and the central (though mistaken) idea that brought sulfa to the world. This is a fascinating scientific tale with all the excitement and intrigue of a great suspense novel.

For thousands of years, humans had sought medicines with which they could defeat contagion, and they had slowly, painstakingly, won a few battles: some vaccines to ward off disease, a handful of antitoxins. A drug or two was available that could stop parasitic diseases once they hit, tropical maladies like malaria and sleeping sickness. But the great killers of Europe, North America, and most of Asia—pneumonia, plague, tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, meningitis—were caused not by parasites but by bacteria, much smaller, far different microorganisms. By 1931, nothing on earth could stop a bacterial infection once it started. . . .

But all that was about to change. . . . —from The Demon Under the Microscope

From the Hardcover edition.

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出版者:Broadway Books
作者:Thomas Hager
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頁數:352
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出版時間:2007-8-28
價格:USD 12.78
裝幀:Paperback
isbn號碼:9781400082148
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Though I'm working in the field, I wasn't inspired by the book.

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the title is overblown; it only covered the discoveries of sulfa and the prose is what it should be. A good way to learn is to probe and prod and prick, I mean, probe all the way through a book and make myself to justify the lattice. If i can get all the way down to the bottom, the outcome is likely to be coherent and solid

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