Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever Book

"An entertaining and informative account of the unusual personalities and sometimes bitter rivalries of some of the world's great-est scientific minds."--Publishers Weekly "Hellman's stories, other than taking greats down a peg by illustrating their jealousy, vitriol, or stubbornness, offer a few cautionary lessons about impediments to scientific progress....A pleasant compendium of amusements and lessons for science buffs."-Booklist "Hellman reveals just how human science can be.…While such fights, which sometimes got personal and even led to individual suffering and ruin, are not pretty, they are informative."-San Diego Union Tribune "Unusual insight into the development of science.…I was excited by this book and enthusiastically recommend it to general as well as scientific audiences."-American Scientist "Hellman has assembled a series of entertaining tales.… Many fine examples of heady invective without parallel in our time."-NatureRead More