Medicine. Science, craft or art? Opima Irina

The book is devoted to outstanding scientists, doctors, pharmacists, whose discoveries have become the most important milestones in the history of medicine. The heroes of the book are William Harvey, who discovered the circulatory system, the founder of genetics Gregor Mendel, physicist Wilhelm X -ray, pharmacist and industrialist Gideon Richter, Soviet transplantologist Vladimir Demikhov and many others. Not all of them managed to achieve success in life, to find out what social recognition and material well -being are, but their names and deeds will forever remain in the memory of mankind.