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A Scientist in Wonderland

- A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble
Af: Edzard Ernst Engelsk Paperback

A Scientist in Wonderland

- A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble
Af: Edzard Ernst Engelsk Paperback
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This is the story of my life as a doctor and a scientist. Despite a youthful ambition to become a jazz musician, I eventually studied medicine and became a medical research scientist, taking up appointments in Germany, Austria and finally in England. My reverence for the pursuit of truth through the application of scientific methods, coupled with a growing interest in the history of medicine during the Nazi era, did not always endear me to my professional colleagues. At the time I was appointed to the world''s first chair in alternative medicine, this was an area of health care that had never been studied systematically, and was almost entirely dominated by outspokenly evangelic promoters and enthusiasts — among them, famously, HRH Prince Charles — many of whom exhibited an overtly hostile, anti-scientific attitude towards the objective study of their favoured therapies. Clashes were inevitable, but the sheer ferocity with which advocates of alternative medicine would go in order to protect their field from scrutiny came as a profound surprise. This memoir provides a unique insight into the cutthroat politics of academic life and offers a sobering reflection on the damage already done by pseudoscience in the field of medicine.

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This is the story of my life as a doctor and a scientist. Despite a youthful ambition to become a jazz musician, I eventually studied medicine and became a medical research scientist, taking up appointments in Germany, Austria and finally in England. My reverence for the pursuit of truth through the application of scientific methods, coupled with a growing interest in the history of medicine during the Nazi era, did not always endear me to my professional colleagues. At the time I was appointed to the world''s first chair in alternative medicine, this was an area of health care that had never been studied systematically, and was almost entirely dominated by outspokenly evangelic promoters and enthusiasts — among them, famously, HRH Prince Charles — many of whom exhibited an overtly hostile, anti-scientific attitude towards the objective study of their favoured therapies. Clashes were inevitable, but the sheer ferocity with which advocates of alternative medicine would go in order to protect their field from scrutiny came as a profound surprise. This memoir provides a unique insight into the cutthroat politics of academic life and offers a sobering reflection on the damage already done by pseudoscience in the field of medicine.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 200
ISBN-13: 9781845407773
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1845407776
Kategori: Selvbiografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin
Udg. Dato: 12 jan 2015
Længde: 12mm
Bredde: 136mm
Højde: 211mm
Forlag: Imprint Academic
Oplagsdato: 12 jan 2015
Forfatter(e): Edzard Ernst
Forfatter(e) Edzard Ernst

Kategori Selvbiografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin

ISBN-13 9781845407773

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 200

Udgave

Længde 12mm

Bredde 136mm

Højde 211mm

Udg. Dato 12 jan 2015

Oplagsdato 12 jan 2015

Forlag Imprint Academic

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