The icepick surgeon murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science
"Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the t...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Piracy: the buccaneer biologist
- Slavery: the corruption of the flycatcher
- Grave-robbing: Jekyll & Hyde, Hunter & Knox
- Murder: the professor and the janitor
- Animal cruelty: the war of the currents
- Sabotage: the bone wars
- Oath-breaking: ethically impossible
- Ambition: surgery of the soul
- Espionage: the variety act
- Torture: the white whale
- Malpractice: sex, power, and money
- Fraud: superwoman.
