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发表于2024-11-26
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Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth is a hilarious celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind, written with all the wit, humour and eye for the beauties of nature -- and machinery and scientific equipment -- that have gained Trevor Norton a cult following and critical acclaim.
Many have followed the advice of the great Victorian scientist Jack Haldane to "never experiment on an animal if a man will do" and "never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn't do yourself." He and his father inhaled poisonous gasses to test the efficacy of the prototype gas mask they had invented. When breathing gasses under pressure he suffered the smoking ears and screaming teeth of the title.
The stories are astonishing, disturbing or absurd -- the Marquis de Sade meets Monty Python. John Hunter pioneered self-experimentation and deliberately infected himself with venereal diseases by the puss transference method and gave his name to chancre of the penis. The zoologist Frank Buckland made a concentrated effort to widen the nation's diet by personally testing everything that crossed his path, from boiled elephant's trunk to bluebottles. He published recipes for such delicacies as slug soup. Some medics deliberately contracted deadly blood diseases in the hope of finding cures. Then there was the surgeon who got the sack and won the Nobel prize for thrusting a catheter into his own beating heart.
Trevor Norton writes that self-experimentation is still a component of much scientific research. In our health and safety obsessed society, we need people who are willing to risk themselves to make life safer for us.
TREVOR NORTON is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool, having retired from the Chair of Marine Biology. He has published widely on ecological topics. He is also an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Manx Studies on the Isle of Man where he lives. His much acclaimed books include Stars Beneath the Sea, Reflections on a Summer Sea and Under Water to Get out of the Rain.
甚是有趣。调侃中隐藏着悲壮。文字尽显英国式的促狭,哈哈。
评分或滑稽或悲壮的科学八卦,拿自己做实验的各种父子兵、兄弟连、夫妻档,从18世纪掘墓盗尸的外科学发展,一直讲到上天入海的极限探险
评分或滑稽或悲壮的科学八卦,拿自己做实验的各种父子兵、兄弟连、夫妻档,从18世纪掘墓盗尸的外科学发展,一直讲到上天入海的极限探险
评分或滑稽或悲壮的科学八卦,拿自己做实验的各种父子兵、兄弟连、夫妻档,从18世纪掘墓盗尸的外科学发展,一直讲到上天入海的极限探险
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Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024