Howard Markel: 3 books
The Kelloggs
The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***
"What's more American than Corn Flakes?" —Bing Crosby
From the much admired medical historian (“Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be”—Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy...
An Anatomy of Addiction
Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors—Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon—showing how their powerful addictions to cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine.
When Freud and Halsted began...
When Germs Travel
Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies like SARS make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.
In this...