The Remedy

The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis Hardcover – April 3, 2014

Author: Visit Amazon's Thomas Goetz Page | Language: English | ISBN: 159240751X | Format: PDF, EPUB

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The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis – April 3, 2014
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• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Gotham; 1 edition (April 3, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159240751X
• ISBN-13: 978-1592407514
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Pathology > Forensic Medicine
  • #20 in Books > Medical Books > History
  • #23 in Books > Medical Books > Research

In this book, Thomas Goetz has done a remarkable job of bringing the past to life. The book focuses on Arthur Conan Doyle, a physician and the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and Robert Koch, a brilliant but difficult man who was one of the great medical scientists of the 1880s and 1890s. (Koch won the Nobel Prize in 1905).

Koch had a number of undisputed achievements in pushing forward the science of medical microbiology, including basic work on the "germ theory" of disease; Koch's Postulates, which are four rules for determining the truth of a hypothesis about a causal microbe; key discoveries in microscopy andb acterial culture; and the use of animal models to investigate disease. Koch also went off the ranch a few times, such as believing that a crude extract of tuberculosis bacteria could cure the disease. (The material, today called tuberculin, might have offered some value for tests or inoculations but not for treatment). Arthur Conan Doyle, a not very successful English physician with a writing habit, traveled to Berlin and was among the first to write up Koch's tuberculin treatment as a failure. (Doyle's article, in a journal called Review of Reviews, can be found online for free).

Thomas Goetz tells everything well: The science story, the public fervor, the biographies of the men, and interesting asides such as the fact that Doyle was the founder of the "serial short story." This literary form had the continued thread found in serialized novels, with the convenience of a self-contained package that doesn't actually require reading the prior and subsequent stories. Students of innovation may find this a striking example of a novel idea that is hatched by mixing and matching two existing ideas.

For me, Robert Koch is the founder of strategy consulting.

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