Americans take millions of aspirin each year, little dreaming that the seemingly ordinary pill is one of the most amazing creations in medical history.
Aspirin is a drug so astonishingly versatile that it can relieve your headache, ease your aching limbs, lower your temperature, and treat some of the deadliest human diseases, preventing everything from heart attacks to cancer to strokes. And the history of the drug is just as surprising.
Rich in dramatic twists and discoveries, the story of aspirin begins in ancient Egypt, and embraces wars, epidemics, espionage, an Oxfordshire vicar, a forgotten Jewish scientist, the Industrial Revolution, a common tree, the Treaty of Versailles, the world's most powerful pharmaceutical companies, Auschwitz, a mercurial advertising genius, and much more. Bringing alive a compelling cast of characters in a dazzling journey across centuries, the author reveals how chance and design brought the drug into being as we know it at the end of the nineteenth century, and how intrigue, greed, and ambition combined to make aspirin one of the most commercially successful products of all time.
总是在电影里面看到美国普通民众对于常见药品的熟悉程度很高,经常有这样的镜头:一个人看到另外一个人拿着一瓶什么什么药,就猜测出患了什么病症。 自己生病的时候,除了感冒的时候去医院买点“白加黑”之类,都要跑到医院去问医生,医生说什么就是什么。 从来也没有想过这...
評分阿司匹林,柳树起源。简单的三人关联,到最后走向不同命运,一个人收钱,一个人变成犹太人,一个反对的人却成了发明者。 名称和本质,商标与产品。在hero上最讽刺。 一个从煤油提炼燃料的公司,变成制药公司,期间又是多少的讽刺 阿司匹林的效用与第三帝国的关联又是多少陌生与...
評分与这本书的缘分倒是不浅。本科时在学校图书馆看见这本小小的书,以一种药物来命名,顿时眼光便被吸引了去。但由于当时课业压力较大,故而搁置一旁,未曾竟读。缘分,有时就是这么巧妙,在书籍阅读分享课上,我们小组被分到了这本书。于是,怀着一探究竟之心,开始了阅读。 不得...
評分相信读者看出来这本书绕不开阿司匹林商业化的引擎来自德国的拜耳医药。但是,这本书不仅仅是阿司匹林,而对乙酰氨基酚的,布洛芬等的介绍依旧是医学和科学进步的内容。这些竞争对手没有被重墨记述是因为相对历史久远,作用丰富的阿司匹林,上述两味仅仅是配角角色。 对科学和商...
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