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MMHA00-42 Morton A Meyers - Happy Accidents.nfo
General Information
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Title: Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
Author: Morton A Meyers
Read By: Richard Waterhouse
Copyright: 2007
Audiobook Copyright: 2013
Genre: Non-Fiction - Science and Technology
Publisher: Audible
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Chapterized - lossless
Source: Audible Enhanced
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 42
Total Duration: 12:36:25
Total MP3 Size: 347.51
Parity Archive: No
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Ripped With: Sound Taxi
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
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Noise Reduction: None
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Book Description
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Audible Editor Reviews
Happy Accidents is a call to arms for more creative encouragement in
the field of medical research. Through the masterful performance of
actor Richard Waterhouse, whose voice brings popular science to life,
this radiologist cum author inspires listeners and lab workers alike
to embrace unpredictability. Without allowing room for mistakes and
boundless curiosity in the laboratory, microwaves, X-rays, and artificial
sweeteners might never have been invented. These tales of serendipitous
imaginations. In the words of Dr. Meyers, "We invent by intention, but
we discover by surprise."
Publisher's Summary
A fascinating and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity
has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the
20th century.
Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible
look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most
important medical discoveries in the 20th century. What do penicillin,
chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in
common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the
search for something else. In the 1990s, Pfizer had high hopes for a
new drug that would boost blood flow to the heart. As they conducted
trials on angina sufferers, researchers noted a startling effect: While
the drug did not affect blood flow to the heart, it did affect blood
flow elsewhere! Now over six million American men have taken Viagra
in their lifetime.
Winston Churchill once said, "Men occasionally stumble across the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has
happened." Within the scientific community, a certain stigma is attached
to chance discovery because it is wrongly seen as pure luck. Happy accidents
certainly happen every day, but it takes intelligence, insight, and
creativity to recognize a "Eureka, I found what I wasn't looking for!"
moment and know what to do next. In discussing medical breakthroughs,
Dr. Morton Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more
creative, rather than purely linear, approach to science. And it may
just save our lives!
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