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【The Medicine Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained】
《大知識輕鬆讀：醫學》
@英國DK原文書
@全彩精裝/336 頁/開本20.2 x 23.9 cm
@作者：DK編輯群
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★引述該領域全球頂尖專家的真知灼見。
疾病如何診斷？
癌症的定義為何？
某些疫情為何如此致命？
本書介紹塑造現代醫學理解的重要突破和發現，並解釋它們如何幫助我們保護和促進健康；內文運用簡單易懂的英文撰寫，充滿了對醫學史上最重要里程碑的簡潔解釋，並輔以逐步圖解和幽默插圖，解開複雜概念的謎團。
從古代醫學實踐，如草藥治療和平衡體液，到包括詹納的牛痘實驗在內的各種突破性研究，奠定了疫苗接種的基礎，本書提供引人入勝的全球醫學史概述，直至21世紀的基因操作、免疫治療和機器人及遠端外科手術。本書涵蓋了療法和藥物在人類治療和預防疾病中的作用，醫院的建立以及國際醫療機構(如世界衛生組織)的成立，並解答了如抗生素耐藥性加速和COVID-19等新挑戰的應對故事。
How are illnesses diagnosed? What is cancer? Why are some pandemics so deadly?
This book explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health. Written in plain English, The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and is packed with pithy explanations of the most important milestones in medical history, with step-by-step diagrams and witty illustrations that untangle knotty concepts.
From ancient medical practices, such as herbal medications and balancing the humours, through groundbreaking work including Jenner's experiments with cowpox, which laid the basis for vaccination, The Medicine Book offers an engaging overview of medical history across the world all the way into the 21st century with gene manipulation, immunotherapy, and robotics and telesurgery. Covering the role that therapies and drugs have played in the human quest to treat and prevent disease, the establishment of hospitals and later international medical bodies, like the WHO, and medical science's response to new challenges, such as accelerated antibiotic resistance and COVID-19, The Medicine Book explains the stories behind each milestone development.
