Date 30 January 2014
Pages 208
Format cm 23 x 28
Price € 34.00
EAN 9782749133522
Publisher Website www.cherche-midi.com

In the Heart of the Living

50 Years of INSERM
Publisher Le Cherche Midi
GENRE Medicine
INSERM is 50 years old! Time to look back on the great biomedical advances in health, neuroscience, oncology, genetics, immunology.

French research is at the cutting edge when it comes to the health sciences. This success is due in large part to the founding of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), whose role was to coordinate the efforts of medical and biological organizations and research labs toward common goals. In a radically contemporary style, this book tells of the discoveries that changed how we look at living beings. Thanks to multiples entries in fields from the scientific and historical to the aesthetic, this work takes readers on a journey through life in labs. What emerges is a portrait researchers grappling with the social and health issues of their eras, and the resulting stakes.