Description
This gripping collection of true stories explores what happens when scientific curiosity, personal ambition, and obsession override ethics and human compassion. Spanning centuries and fields from medicine to psychology and beyond, it profiles researchers and experimenters whose pursuit of knowledge led to astonishing breakthroughs, abuse, tragedy, or outright crime. Along the way, the book examines the dark history of scientific experimentation, the power scientists hold over vulnerable subjects, and the moral boundaries that progress can imperil. Told with vivid detail, intellectual curiosity, and a sharp sense of the bizarre, it offers a provocative look at the extremes of human ingenuity.
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hardcover
Little, Brown and Company
Published Jul 13, 2021
368 pages
ISBN: 9780316496506
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean.