Microbe Hunters [Kindle Edition]
Author: Paul de Kruif F. Gonzalez-Crussi | Language: English | ISBN: B004KZOWFA | Format: PDF, EPUB
Microbe Hunters
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In this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich. This seventieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by F. Gonzalez-Crussi.
Direct download links available for Microbe Hunters - File Size: 806 KB
- Print Length: 370 pages
- Publisher: Mariner Books; 3 edition (October 28, 2002)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004KZOWFA
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,905 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #8 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Basic Science > Microbiology
- #91 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Science > Biological Sciences > Biology
- #95 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Biology
We already owned one copy of Microbe Hunters but lent it out to a friend of ours who teaches high school science -- so we needed another copy. Microbe Hunters was recommended to me when I was interviewing a girl for a job at Borders bookstore. I asked her to tell me about her favorite book and she talked about Microbe Hunters with such passion that I HAD to find a copy.By Supermod_l
This is a great book to give to students of all ages who express a great deal of interest in biology, microbiology, medicine, or general history. The individual biographies are engaging and exciting as we travel with scientists through the breakthroughs in exploration of some of the smallest of our Earth's inhabitants.
It should be noted to modern readers, and this is covered in the book's forward, that De Kruif uses some language and stereotypes that are unacceptable in modern society. In one of the last chapters in particular, De Kruif describes free black men as "negroes" and refers to them as belonging to someone else. He also describes black people as lazy. This only occurs briefly, but can still be a jarring while reading. With a concerted effort to understand (but not excuse) the author's social misunderstanding while not discounting the otherwise observant narrative, the racial issues do not ruin or overly detract from the amazing book.
I highly recommend Microbe Hunters.
Being in Nursing school, it is required that I take the course Microbiology. Part of our reading materials were The Hot Zone, Demon In The Freezer, and this wonderful book I've just finished, Microbe Hunters.By Will Nance
Never have I read such wonderful books one right after the other. After I finished each one, I thought that one was the best book on microbes. They are all wonderful in their own ways, but this book on how it all started is endearing in that it was written so long ago (1926). When the author speaks of something happening in the 1890's, that's over a hundred years ago to us, but was just yesterday to the author.
Today, we think of ourselves as medically advanced and very knowledgeable in science. However, one hundred years from now they will look at our methods and shake their heads in wonder at how we could have done such silly things. Likewise, we wonder about microbe hunters of 100 years ago. But we would be wise to understand the baby steps they all had to take to get us where we are today.
This is truly a remarkable book on the history of how we got to where we are today. If only De Kruif could have written a similar book that takes us from 1926 until today. Alas, he died in 1971, having left us with a masterpiece.
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