Date 12 March 2020
Pages 212
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 18.00
EAN 9782348058646
Publisher Website www.editionsladecouverte.fr

Patient Zeroes

Author Luc Perino
Publisher La Découverte
COLLECTION Cahiers libres
Keywords Medicine - Death
Stories from the annals of medicine where the heroes are the patients, not the doctors!

A "patient zero" is a patient on whom a new diagnosis is based. Fine-tuned like short fiction, these accounts of patient zeroes tell a different story about medical history: stories of how healthcare is reverse-engineered. Some of these cases are famous, like young Joseph Meister, the first patient ever to be vaccinated against rabies, by Pasteur.
However, most of them are unknown. Through their lens, this book examines the vicissitudes, excesses, and errors of medicine from the past to the present.

  • Awards Prix La Science se livre 2021
  • As of: September 2021