Science and the Quiet Art - The Role of Medical Research in Health Care

Science and the Quiet Art describes the experiments and the experimenters, shows how the tools of science have been applied to the study of disease through history to the present, and looks to the future.

David Weatherall emphasizes the complex interplay in disease between nature, nurture, and aging and hence why, even with todays sophisticated methods, progress will be slow. Publishers Weekly describes the book as "a revealing and sobering appraisal of the successes, limitations, and promise of modern medicine."

About the author

Sir David Weatherall is Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford and a specialist in human genetics.

Summary

The clearest explanation yet of how improvements in patient care are related to--and depend on--biomedical research.

Product details

• Authors: D. J. Weatherall, David Weatherall
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1996
• EAN: 9780393315646
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31564-6
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 616 g
• Series: Norton Paperback; Norton Paperback
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)