Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical BreakthroughsArcade Publishing, 2007 - 390 頁 This is Morton Meyers' fascinating, entertaining, and highlyaccessible look at the surprising role serendipity played in some of themost important medical discoveries in the 20th century. Though within thescientific community a certain stigma is attached to chance discoverybecause it is wrongly seen as pure luck, happy accidents happen every dayand Meyers shows how it takes intelligence, insight, and creativity torecognize a "Eureka! I found what I wasn't look for!" moment and know whatto do next. Penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear,and Viagra were all discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in search ofsomething else. In discussing these medical breakthroughs and others, Dr.Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more creative, ratherthan purely linear, approach to science. |
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Serendipity Sciences WellGuarded Secret | 1 |
PART | 27 |
How Antonys Little Animals Led to the Development of Germ Theory | 29 |
The New Science of Bacteriology | 34 |
Good Chemistry | 38 |
The Art of Dyeing | 48 |
Mold Glorious Mold | 59 |
Pay Dirt | 82 |
Its Electric | 187 |
What a Catheter Can Do | 195 |
Dottering | 205 |
A Stitch in Time | 208 |
The Nobel Committee Says Yes to NO | 215 |
Its Not You Honey Its NO | 220 |
Whats Your Number? | 225 |
Thinning the Blood | 234 |
The Mysterious Protein from Down Under | 92 |
This Ulcer Bugs Me | 99 |
PART | 115 |
Tragedy at Bari | 117 |
Antagonists to Cancer | 127 |
The Healing Power of Periwinkle | 131 |
The Value of Platinum | 135 |
Sex Hormones | 138 |
29 | 139 |
The Birth of Blood Vessels | 140 |
Aspirin Kills More than Pain | 148 |
From Tragedy to Hope | 151 |
A Sick Chicken Leads to the Discovery of CancerAccelerating Genes | 154 |
A Contaminated Vaccine Leads to CancerBraking Genes | 159 |
From Where It All Stems | 165 |
The Industrialization of Research and the War on Cancer | 169 |
Lessons Learned | 181 |
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