The New York Times Book of Medicine: More Than 150 Years of Reporting on the Evolution of Medicine

by Gina Kolata

Today we live longer, healthier lives than ever before in history--a transformation due almost entirely to tremendous advances in medicine. This change is so profound, with many major illnesses nearly wiped out, that it's hard now to imagine what the world was like in 1851, when the New York Times began publishing. Treatments for depression, blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, and diabetes came later; antibiotics were nonexistent, viruses unheard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1454902051
• ISBN13: 9781454902058
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"