Author: Francesco Adami

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    • Francesco Adami   

      Sette farmaci che hanno salvato il mondo

      Adrenalina, atropina, insulina, cortisone, aspirina, antisettici e antiaritmici: la storia di sette farmaci che oggi utilizziamo con naturalezza, quasi dandoli per scontati, ma che hanno profondamente segnato non solo la storia della medicina, ma dell’uomo stesso.

      Dall’unicorno mitologico all’insulina, dalla stregonesca belladonna all’aspirina: Francesco Adami descrive la trasformazione della medicina da arte empirica a scienza rigorosa.

      Ogni capitolo del volume intreccia scienza, storia e cultura in un racconto avvincente che unisce rigore e umanità.

    • Francesco Adami   

      The Doctor’s Bag

      The history of the tools that changed medicine forever

      This is the fascinating story of ten instruments that changed medicine and our lives forever.

      How did Sherlock Holmes single out a doctor in the crowd? What links an eclectic French professor armed with a strange rifle without bullets, running horses and the measurement of blood pressure? What is the relationship between a Pink Floyd album and the development of the pulse oximeter, or between the Beatles and the invention of the CT scan? How do smart watches directly perform an electrocardiogram from the wearer’s wrist?

      Page after page of historical anecdotes, scientific curiosities, outstanding discoveries and bizarre experiments, we discover the extraordinary journey behind every medical instrument. Art, science and culture merged in the lives of creative and tenacious women and men who revolutionised their ages and laid the foundations of modern medicine.