The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science

The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the worldâ€™s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicineâ€”and how understanding these principles can empower us all.

Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a â€œscienceâ€? Sciences must have lawsâ€”statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences?

Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this questionâ€”a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his disciplineâ€”culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine.

Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjeeâ€™s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster/ TED
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-13
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781476784854

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster/ TED
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-10-13
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781476784854

The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)

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