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Petr Valentinovich talents: 0.05. Evidence-based medicine from magic to the search for immortality
An extensive and comprehensive study of the past, present and future of evidence-based medicine. Doctor, member of the Society of Evidence-Based Medicine Specialists and the Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences for Combating the Falsification of Scientific Research, co-founder of the Evolution Foundation Petr Talantov tells in detail and fascinatingly what real medicine is, how it developed and how it differs from magic and charlatanism.
The number 0.05 in the title is the so-called p-value, a popular, though by no means the only, way of separating the results of an experiment into positive and negative ones. Actually, it is about experiments, first of all, that this book is about. The author tells in detail the history of the development of medical knowledge in Egypt and Ancient Greece, India and China, medieval Europe and Italy of the Renaissance, clearly showing how medicine as a science was born from the collision of various theories and hypotheses and how experiment became the main measure of this science. Selfless scientists who conducted deadly experiments on themselves, and charlatans hiding behind human fears and prejudices, romantics and pragmatists, liars and seekers of truth, accidental discoveries and brilliant insights, bold theories and erroneous hypotheses: a book on medicine, perhaps, has never been so exciting, scientific and useful at the same time.
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How did magical medicine work and why were the sick ordered to go to the executions of criminals? From what diseases, according to mystic doctors, did lily of the valley, wild cucumber and bear hair help? What was Hippocrates right and what was wrong? Why was childbirth on the street less likely to end in puerperal fever in the 19th century than childbirth surrounded by doctors in a hospital? What are clinical trials and how are they carried out? Who are biohackers and how do modern experts look for the elixir of immortality? How are patients selected for trials, and why is this often error-prone? What is evidence-based medicine and how does it differ from alternative medicine? What are the main arguments and slogans of the supporters of the latter, and why are they fundamentally wrong? How does real medicine differ from charlatanism and magical practices? Peter Talantov's book contains all the comprehensive information about how evidence-based medicine was born, what state it is in now, and what its future is.
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Therapeutic properties of plants have long been associated with the fact that they resemble outwardly. At the beginning of the XVI century, this idea was framed by a doctor and mystics Paracelsee into the concept that received the name of the doctrine of signatures later. She picked up that nature provided all the plants with understandable person symbols – signatures indicating their properties. Paracels, for example, noted that the cyclaman has the form of the ear and therefore