出版社: Workman Publishing Company
副标题: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
出版年: 2017-10-17
页数: 352
定价: USD 22.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780761189817
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When snorting skull moss was a cure for a bloody nose. When consuming mail-order tapeworms was a latter-day fad diet. Or when snake oil salesmen peddled strychnine (used in rat poison) as an aphrodisiac in the '60s. Seamlessly combi...
Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When snorting skull moss was a cure for a bloody nose. When consuming mail-order tapeworms was a latter-day fad diet. Or when snake oil salesmen peddled strychnine (used in rat poison) as an aphrodisiac in the '60s. Seamlessly combining macabre humor with hard science and compelling storytelling, Quackery is a visually rich and information-packed exploration of history's most outlandish cures, experiments, and scams.
A humorous book that delves into some of the wacky but true ways that humans have looked to cure their ills. Leeches, mercury, strychnine, and lobotomies are a few of the topics that explore what lengths society has gone in the search for health.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Lydia Kang:
I love salt more than chocolate. I'm somewhat small, yet deceptively strong. Sort of like an ant.
I'm a part time doc, full time family member, and if you offer me snacks, I'll be a friend for life.
My adult fiction debut is an historical forensic mystery, entitled A BEAUTIFUL POISON from Lake Union Publishing. My second book, THE IMPOSSIBLE GIRL, arrives September ...
Lydia Kang:
I love salt more than chocolate. I'm somewhat small, yet deceptively strong. Sort of like an ant.
I'm a part time doc, full time family member, and if you offer me snacks, I'll be a friend for life.
My adult fiction debut is an historical forensic mystery, entitled A BEAUTIFUL POISON from Lake Union Publishing. My second book, THE IMPOSSIBLE GIRL, arrives September 2018.
I have a nonfiction adult book written with Nate Pederson entitled QUACKERY: A Short History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, coming in 2017 (Workman).
And also...a new YA novel, TOXIC, a space opera about a created, teen girl who's abandoned on a biological spaceship, and the mercenary boy doomed to die on it. I've also written THE NOVEMBER GIRL, set on a remote island on Lake Superior. A girl with violence running through her veins meets a boy running away from an abusive home life. Both from Entangled Teen/Macmillan.
I'm also part of the new anthology, COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, with Soho Teen coming in 2019!
My YA sci-fi novel, CONTROL, debuted December 2013 (Dial/Penguin). The sequel, CATALYST, released March 2015 (Kathy Dawson Books/Penguin). I released a short story in the dark YA anthology, AMONG THE SHADOWS October 2015.
Nate Pedersen is a librarian, journalist, and historian in Oregon. His website is http://natepedersen.com
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荒诞的是他们,更是我们
扒一扒大咖们的“黑历史”
医学史上的“灾难片”
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最近读了《荒诞医学史》,真的是大开眼界。作为一名医学生,真的很惭愧,在读这本书之前,真的没有想到医学的发展竟然经历了那么多匪夷所思的事情。讲医学的书,但读起来一点都不生僻,并没有涉及一些专业性的知识,人人都可以看懂,甚至有种要把医生从高冷的神坛上拉下来的感... (展开)NO.108治病?搞怪?让人难以置信的荒诞医学
真敢!离离原上谱,不知道该笑还是哭!
这本书笑得肚子疼,有点意思。
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2 有用 兔豹宝 2019-11-19 17:21:37
全世界人民真的从古至今都一样啊,大把金钱给保健品化妆品交智商税…能看原版看原版吧,中文版的翻译虽不出错但干巴巴的失去了很多笑点
1 有用 RococobasILIsk 2020-08-21 14:12:53
活在这个时代是很性感的事情
0 有用 EsTreLla 2022-04-18 00:58:35
蛮有趣~ 愚蠢的人类啊!
0 有用 ZZ 2023-03-02 02:20:59 美国
非常有意思的一本書。聽著有聲書,感覺像聼podcast!何況朗讀者是one of my favorites。
0 有用 Le Flaneur 2023-03-21 17:14:37 上海
文风幽默,还有一章专门讲治疗女性“歇斯底里”的;我也来贡献一个我经历过的qackery:小时候我的眼睛好像是长了个麦粒肿,我妈不知道从哪里得来一个土方,用狗的阴茎骨头在明火上烧热,蘸一点鱼露涂在麦粒肿上,涂了几天就消下去了,也不知道是自己消的还是这个土方真的起作用了
0 有用 Le Flaneur 2023-03-21 17:14:37 上海
文风幽默,还有一章专门讲治疗女性“歇斯底里”的;我也来贡献一个我经历过的qackery:小时候我的眼睛好像是长了个麦粒肿,我妈不知道从哪里得来一个土方,用狗的阴茎骨头在明火上烧热,蘸一点鱼露涂在麦粒肿上,涂了几天就消下去了,也不知道是自己消的还是这个土方真的起作用了
0 有用 ZZ 2023-03-02 02:20:59 美国
非常有意思的一本書。聽著有聲書,感覺像聼podcast!何況朗讀者是one of my favorites。
0 有用 EsTreLla 2022-04-18 00:58:35
蛮有趣~ 愚蠢的人类啊!
0 有用 xxyy 2022-03-21 19:29:51
@2018-11-12 20:56:20 @2021-07-02 06:23:07
0 有用 汐夏 2021-09-26 23:00:09
及其期待 又一本随手在书店翻开就放不下的书!上次看到这么好玩的书还是大学图书馆里的埃及死亡之书!