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EAN : 9782348058646
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 210
Size : 140 x 205 mm
PATIENT ZEROS

Collection : Cahiers libres
Release date : 12/03/2020
A “patient zero” is a patient on whom a new diagnosis is based.
Fine-tuned like short fiction, these accounts of patient zeros tell a different story about medical history: stories of reverse engineering of medicine.
Some of these cases are famous, like young Joseph Meister, the first patient to be vaccinated against...
A “patient zero” is a patient on whom a new diagnosis is based.
Fine-tuned like short fiction, these accounts of patient zeros tell a different story about medical history: stories of reverse engineering of medicine.
Some of these cases are famous, like young Joseph Meister, the first patient to be vaccinated against rabies by Pasteur. However, most of them are unknown.
Through them, this book examines the vicissitudes, excesses and errors of medicine from the past to the present.
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EAN : 9782348058646
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 210
Size : 140 x 205 mm
La Découverte