Muneel Zaidi's Reviews > Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
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bookshelves: audiobook, favorites, non-fiction, non-fiction-history, non-fiction-medical, non-fiction-technical
Feb 16, 2020
bookshelves: audiobook, favorites, non-fiction, non-fiction-history, non-fiction-medical, non-fiction-technical
Well written, entertaining, and informative. The author has an excellent way of navigating through medical jargon and explaining concepts simply. He takes pains to weave in historical significance and tangents that make the narrative engaging. This includes significant pharmaceutical contributions made by minorities and women, often ignored. Additionally, the narrator is slightly unreliable, which is usually a plot device in fictional stories. In this case, it is the author discovering and reforming ideas as he learns more about drugs and the industry. Highly recommend to all readers, except medical professionals; the cognitive dissonance caused by reading this would be too much for them.
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