The Drug Hunters

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The surprising, behind the scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran dr. Free Read eBook The Drug Hunters by Donald R. Kirsch – kino-fada.fr Some caveats on the star rating 1 It s clear that this guy isn t a real writer as the writing style is definitely inelegant, just some guy with a cool story to tell Doesn t matter It s still entertaining as heck.2 I love this type of genre and story and this is basically the best job ever and it aligns with so many things I love about science and medicine Not everybody is gonna swoon as hard as I did, and that s cool But what ...This fun little book covered the creation of new drugs from early healers who engaged in a largely hit or miss process that sometime landed them on a plant that helped cure an ailment to the later healers who extracted specific chemicals from plants that werepotent healers One of the most interesting plants is the poppy that gave us multiple drugs including morphine and heroin While I liked Ogas and Kirsch s discussion of the poppy, it simply could never compare to the discussion of the This fun little book covered the creation of new drugs from early healers who engaged in a largely hit or miss process that sometime landed them on a plant that helped cure an ailment to the later healers who extracted specific chemicals from plants that werepotent healers One of the most interesting plants is the poppy that gave us multiple drugs including morphine and heroin While I liked Ogas and Kirsch s discussion of the poppy, it simply could never compare to the discussion of the poppy given in Paul Offit s Pandora s Lab That book as a whole wasn t my favorite Several things bothered me, but his discussion of the poppy was second to none Muchinteresting was the authors section on Chinese medicine, which claims, among other things, tha...This book is one big bookmark One amazing fact anecdote after another.It s almost hilarious When it comes to finding out new drugs, it s ideal if you re competent and lucky.But if you have to chose, luck is the way to go The randomness of some findings is just mind blowing The resistance of what s supposed to be scientific community to groundbreaking findings and drugs makes me wanna stick a needle in someone s eye Humanity is like bunch of primitives monkeying around, trying new substanc This book is one big bookmark One amazing fact anecdote after another.It s...I work in support of medical research and I have been searching for a book that explains the highs and lows of the drug discovery this is the book Science writing for laypeople is difficult The authors get it right with historical details and explanations of modern realities This answers the questions I have struggled to answer Why do drugs cost so much Why ...A clear and concise history of the search for new medicines, from early man chewing on bark to today s big pharma giants, this book was a very easy read, and a perfect introduction to a fascinating topic The material is divided into a series of topics, in broadly chronological order, and covers everything from early botanical treatments to the most modern cutting edge techniques of drug development involving molecular biology, genetic sequencing and use of recombinant DNA There is very little A clear and concise history of the search for new medicines, from early man chewing on bark to today s big pharma giants, this book was a very easy read, and a perfect introduction to a fascinating topic The material is divided into a series of topics, in broadly chronological order, and covers everything from early botanical treatments to the most modern cutting edge techniques of drug development involving molecular biology, genetic sequencing and use of recombinant DNA There is very little use of scientific jargon, the writing is anecdotal, almost conversational in style I was somewhat surprised...This book was absolutely fascinating and for those who have always wondered why there isn t a tablet for this or that clearly explains the answer.The Drug Hunters gives the pre history, history and future diagnosis of where our medications came from and were developed This is the story of how and why the tablets we take from Aspirin to the birth control pill came into being and the stories behind them.I had several surprises such as there has only been medication for schizophrenia and depressio This book was absolutely fascinating and for those who have always wondered why there isn t a tablet for this or...This is an artful defense of Big Pharma To give him credit, the author discloses up front his connection to the drug industry Also, the book is well written in terms of having little stories about the history of medicine instead of just science factoids The problem is that the framing of the stories is misleading Overall, what the stories illustrate is that it is NOT Big Pharma that produces advances in useful new drugs, it is independent researchers pursuing their passions Ehrlich, Goodm This is an artful defense of Big Pharma To give him credit, the author discloses up front his connection to the drug industry Also, the book is well written in terms of having little stories about the history of medicine instead of just science factoids The problem is that the framing of the stories is misleading Overall, what the stories illustrate is that it is NOT Big Pharma that produces advances in useful new drugs, it is independent researchers pursuing their passions Ehrlich, Goodman and Gilman, Fleming, Boyer, etc etc The author admits this, but somehow twists it upside down into an argument about how Bi...Donald Kirsch is a drug hunter a scientist who works for pharmaceutical companies working to develop new drugs He s worked for several different companies over the course of his career, and has lived through finding new drugs, having the quest to develop a new drug end in failure, or in the development of so...A brief history of how new drugs are found, and how they are tested and brought to market, by a guy who s spent his career as a drug hunter, working for Big Pharma He writes well, knows the field and has done his homework Almost every chapter has unexpected insights after Fleming discovered penicillin, it was shelved for years until WW2 loomed, for lack of any way to mass produce the drug A moldy cantaloupe found in Peoria turned out to be a better strain of the P...3.5 5.0

The Drug Hunters
  • 19 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 328 pages
  • 1628727187
  • Donald R. Kirsch
  • The Drug Hunters