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Auteur(s) : Hall, Kersten T.  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Insulin, the crooked timber [Texte imprimé] : a history from thick brown muck to Wall Street gold / Kersten T. Hall

Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, copyright 2022

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-455 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [351]-379. Index
Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. To mark the centenary of this landmark in medicine, this book charts the journey of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown muck' into the very first drug to be produced using genetic engineering, and which earned the founders of US biotech company Genentech a small fortune. Taking the reader on a fascinating journey, starting with the discovery of insulin in the 1920s through to the present day, Insulin - The Crooked Timber reveals a story of monstrous egos, toxic career rivalries, and a few unsung heroes and heroines. It discusses in detail the circumstances of Canadian scientist Frederick Banting whose award of the 1923 Nobel Prize for this life-saving discovery proved to be both a blessing and a curse for him and explores how the human story behind this discovery still remains one of ongoing political and scientific controversy. The book is the result of the author's own shocking diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes and its story reminds us all of what technology can - and cannot do - for us. As the world struggles to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and face future challenges such as climate change, the lessons that we can learn from the story of insulin have never been more important

Sujet(s) : Insuline -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Médicaments -- Aspect économique  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Industrie pharmaceutique -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  615.365 09 (23e éd.) = Insuline (pharmacologie) - Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780192855381. - ISBN 0192855387 (rel.)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47047007c

Notice n° :  FRBNF47047007 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)