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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.
 Media BuzzCBS Sunday Morning - October 7, 2007
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