Ebook: Great feuds in medicine: ten of the liveliest disputes ever

An entertaining and informative account of the unusual personalities and sometimes bitter rivalries of some of the world’s great-est scientific minds.--Publishers Weekly

''Hellman’s stories, other than taking greats down a peg by illustrating their jealousy, vitriol, or stubbornness, offer a few cautionary lessons about impediments to scientific progress....A pleasant compendium of amusements and lessons for science buffs.''–Booklist

''Hellman reveals just how human science can be.…While such fights, which sometimes got personal and even led to individual suffering and ruin, are not pretty, they are informative.''–San Diego Union Tribune

''Unusual insight into the development of science.…I was excited by this book and enthusiastically recommend it to general as well as scientific audiences.''–American Scientist

''Hellman has assembled a series of entertaining tales.… Many fine examples of heady invective without parallel in our time.''–Nature