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Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
Arcade
March 2007
On Sale: March 9, 2007
408 pages
ISBN: 1559708190
EAN: 9781559708197
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
This is Morton Meyers' fascinating, entertaining, and highly
accessible look at the surprising role serendipity played in
some of themost important medical discoveries in the 20th
century. Though within the scientific community a certain
stigma is attached to chance discovery because it is wrongly
seen as pure luck, happy accidents happen every day and
Meyers shows how it takes intelligence, insight, and
creativity to recognize a "Eureka! I found what I wasn't
look for!" moment and know what to do next. Penicillin,
chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear,and Viagra
were all discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in search of
something else. In discussing these medical breakthroughs
and others, Dr.Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging
argument for a more creative, rather than purely linear,
approach to science.
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