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.
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His writing has been selected repeatedly for the Best American Science Writing and Best Technology Writing anthologies.
The cofounder of Iodine, a health technology company, he has served as entrepreneur in residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and executive editor at WIRED.
About the Author: Thomas Goetz is a science writer and health-care innovator.
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.
In particular, he turned to a character inspired by the very scientific methods that Koch had formulated: Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle, meanwhile, returned to England determined to abandon medicine in favor of writing.
As Europe\'s consumptives descended upon Berlin, Koch urgently tried to prove his case.
But to a world desperate for relief, Koch\'s remedy wasn\'t so easily dismissed.
Koch\'s "remedy" was either sloppy science or outright fraud.
Touring the ward of reportedly cured patients, he was horrified.
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.
Koch soon embarked on a remedy--a remedy that would be his undoing.
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.
A diagnosis of TB--often called consumption--was a death sentence.
In 1875, Tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths.
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
