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Focusing on a few key moments in the transformation of medical care, the author reveals the way that new discoveries and new approaches led doctors and patients alike to discard fatalism and their traditional religious acceptance of suffering in favor of a new faith in health care and in the capacity of doctors to treat disease.

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"Bliss's excellent account of the insulin story is a rare dissection of the anatomy of scientific discovery, and serves as a model of how rigorous historical method can correct the myths and legends sometimes perpetrated in the scientific literature." - New Republic"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 2/15/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226059013, 978-0226059013
      ISBN10: 0226059014
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      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on a few key moments in the transformation of medical care, the author reveals the way that new discoveries and new approaches led doctors and patients alike to discard fatalism and their traditional religious acceptance of suffering in favor of a new faith in health care and in the capacity of doctors to treat disease.

      Trade Review
      "Bliss's excellent account of the insulin story is a rare dissection of the anatomy of scientific discovery, and serves as a model of how rigorous historical method can correct the myths and legends sometimes perpetrated in the scientific literature." - New Republic"

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