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Author: Morton A. Meyers
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A fascinating and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century.
Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In the 1990s, Pfizer had high hopes for a new drug that would boost blood flow to the heart. As they conducted trials on angina sufferers, researchers noted a startling effect: while the drug did not affect blood flow to the heart, it did affect blood flow elsewhere! Now over six million American men have taken Viagra in their lifetime.
Winston Churchill once said, “Men occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.” Within the scientific community, a certain stigma is attached to chance discovery because it is wrongly seen as pure luck. Happy accidents certainly happen every day, but it takes intelligence, insight, and creativity to recognize a “Eureka, I found what I wasn't looking for!” moment and know what to do next. In discussing medical breakthroughs, Dr. Morton Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more creative, rather than purely linear, approach to science. And it may just save our lives!
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- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Arcade Publishing; 1 edition (September 1, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1611451620
- ISBN-13: 978-1611451627
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6 x 8.9 inches
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Many of the groundbreaking medical ideas of our century were discovered accidentally - and we don't even know about it!
This book shed light on this very important subject that is not just related to science, but can also affect the economy, politics, corporate, etc.
If we learn how to make the best out of our mistakes our life can transform!
By Lee
The author, a professor emeritus at a medical school, provides an interesting look at how significant modern medical discoveries have often been the result of accident and happenstance rather than systematic research. The author: (1) looks at a broad range of medical research subjects from the 1800s to the present; (2) points out how systematic research has not always been as successful as hoped; (3) provides many specific examples of how significant medical advances have been made as a result of chance, unexpected results, and fortuitous discoveries; and (4) gives some insight into how personality, temperament, personal motives, and human idiosyncracies have influenced medical research. In a concluding chapter, the author offers some suggestions and proposals for how medical research could be made more effective by taking into consideration the possibility that serendipity could be more helpful on occasion than systematic research.
The book provides an informative history of a technical subject that is written in a readable style accessible to the general public. Readers interested in this book may wish to consider also taking a look at F. Gonzalez-Crussi,
A Short History of Medicine (Modern Library Chronicles),which does a very good job of showing the human side of medical history.
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