Boneheads and Brainiacs: Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine by Moira Dolan

Boneheads and Brainiacs: Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Moira Dolan

260 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays health history science dark funny informative medium-paced
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Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong.The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his patients' brains. Another Nobel laureate thought malaria cured syphilis. The discoverer of anaphyl...

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