The+Remedy+by+by+Thomas+Goetz

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**Book Summary** The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world’s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB - often called consumption - was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that caused TB. Koch soon embarked on a remedy - a remedy that would be his undoing. When Koch announced his cure for consumption, Arthur Conan Doyle, then a small-town doctor in England and sometime writer, went to Berlin to cover the event. Touring the ward of reportedly cured patients, he was horrified. Koch’s “remedy” was either sloppy science or outright fraud. But to a world desperate for relief, Koch’s remedy wasn’t so easily dismissed. As Europe’s consumptives descended upon Berlin, Koch urgently tried to prove his case. Conan Doyle, meanwhile, returned to England determined to abandon medicine in favor of writing. In particular, he turned to a character inspired by the very scientific methods that Koch had formulated: Sherlock Holmes. Capturing the moment when mystery and magic began to yield to science, The Remedy chronicles the stunning story of how the germ theory of disease became a true fact, how two men of ambition were emboldened to reach for something more, and how scientific discoveries evolve into social truths.

= About the Author = Thomas Goetz is a writer, entrepreneur and health care innovator. He is the author of the new book, The Remedy, which was chosen as a Best Book of the month by both iTunes and Amazon. His previous book, The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine, was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as a Best Health book of 2010. Thomas is also co-founder of [|Iodine], a health technology company with the mission of turning medical research data into clear and actionable tools for ordinary people to make better decisions about their health. Thomas is also entrepreneur-in-residence at the [|Robert Wood Johnson Foundation] where he created both the Visualizing Healthand Flip the Clinic projects. He was previously the executive editor at WIRED, where he led the magazine to more than a dozen National Magazine Awards over 11 years. His stories forWIRED, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications have covered [|personal genomics], the controversial [|metabolic syndrome], and the [|mystery of behavior change]. His writing has been selected for the Best American Science Writing, Best American Science & Nature Writing, and Best Technology Writing anthologies. His TED talk on [|redesigning medical data] has been viewed more than 400,000 times, and [|inspired Thomas to found Iodine]. It also inspired the [|Health Design Challenge], a national competition sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, to deliver better information to patients. Thomas was executive producer for the award-winning Discovery Channel documentary, [|Earth 2050: The Future of Energy], and has served as curator-in-residence for the Adobe Museum of Digital Media. From 2010 to 2012, he served as a council member for [|NASA’s Launch Challenge series], guiding competitions on health and energy. In 1998, he founded BubbleEconomy.com, one of the first blogs (hand-coding the HTML every morning at 5 a.m.). He holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master’s degree in American literature from the University of Virginia. He graduated from Bates College, where he learned to juggle five balls at once (he’s since back down to three).

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