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Audio Book The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines with FREE PDF EDITION Download Now!

The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity— by chewing, brewing, and snorting—some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery.The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor. The chapters offer a lively tour of how new drugs are actually found, the discovery strategies, the mistakes, and the rare successes. Dr. Donald R. Kirsch infuses the book with his own expertise and experiences from thirty-five years of drug hunting, whether searching for life-saving molecules in mudflats by Chesapeake Bay or as a chief science officer and research group leader at major pharmaceutical companies.

At this time of writing, The Audiobook The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines has garnered 9 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Audiobook is Good TO READ!

Audio Book The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines with FREE PDF EDITION!

This is a fun, breezy read about the history (lite?) of pharmacology, as told by a pharmacologist - someone who researches chemical compounds in order to create new medications. Even though there is a useful bibliography at the end - divided by chapter, which is REALLY helpful if there is a subject you wish to explore further - this is not an overly-serious look at the discipline. But it is definitely easier to read for a lay person than a serious pharmacological tome. It is DEFINITELY a lot easier to read than the gold standard Goodman and Gilman text used (and referenced herein!) in my pharmacology course in pharmacy school! There is a useful list of categories of pharmaceutical products also. I highly encourage you to read the extensive notes for each chapter, as many more-technical juicy tidbits are included there. The author even states that he put more technical info in the notes to keep the book easy to read.I'm sorry I put off reading it as long as I did b/c I really enjoyed a lighter look at the subject, and passed it along to my non-pharmacy husband b/c I think it was just that interesting of a book.

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