50 great ideas Medicine

The relationship we have today with medicine is in a precarious balance between wonder and frustration. Knowing the great ideas that, throughout history, have changed medicine so profoundly is a simple and direct way to familiarize with the stages that have led us – in the last centuries – to double life expectancy, but at the same time to understand what the limits of medicine still are, and how difficult it is to cross them. The book describes those moments, placing them in the historical and cultural context, and giving us the tools to know what we can reasonably expect today (and why) and what can instead come from the future and from research.