Selvbiografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin

FACTFULNESS handler om verden, og hvordan vi kan blive bedre til at forstå den, som den virkelig er. Når man stiller folk simple spørgsmål om globale tendenser, giver de altid de forkerte svar. Hvor mange piger går for eksempel i skole? Hvor stor vil Jordens befolkning være i 2050? Og lever størstedelen i rige eller fattige lande? I FACTFULNESS viser Hans Rosling sammen med Ola Rosling og Anna Rosling Rönnlund, hvorfor misforståelserne sker. De beskriver 10 fundamentale menneskelige instinkter, som konsekvent forhindrer os i at have et faktabaseret verdenssyn. Læs denne bog, og dit syn på verden vil blive forandret for altid. "En af de vigtigste bøger jeg nogensinde har læst - en uundværlig vejledning i at tænke klart om verden." Bill Gates

Peter Lund Madsen tager os med på en rejse gennem hjernens evolutionshistorie og forklarer, hvorfor alle moderne mennesker bærer kimen til mental ubalance i sig. Peter Lund Madsen fortæller også om dengang, han selv var bange for at blive sindssyg. Men hvad sker der egentlig i hjernen, når virkelighedsopfattelsen forsvinder, og man ikke kan kende sig selv i spejlet? Når man bliver så angst, at hjertet hamrer, gulvet forsvinder, og man ikke kan trække vejret? Læs om den betydning hjernens funktionsevne har for stress, demens, angst, skizofreni og meget mere.

Lydbog indlæst af Lone Frank selv.I sin nye bog sammenstykker Lone Frank brikker fra naturvidenskab, psykologi og kulturforskning til at kortlægge kærlighedens natur.Hvad er kærlighed? Ja, hvad er kærlighed egentlig?Spørgsmålet rammer Lone Frank hårdt, da hun pludselig mister den, kærligheden. Hendes kæreste er død, familien er for længst borte, og vennerne er ikke så tæt på, som hun troede. Midt i livet går det op for hende, at hun har taget kærligheden for givet og forstået meget lidt af dens væsen og store betydning. Sædvanligvis retter vi de store spørgs- mål om kærligheden til digtere, kunstnere og filosoffer, men i sin åbne søgen efter svar vælger Lone Frank at gå nye veje. Sammen med en psykolog gransker hun sit ophav, og deres samtaler sender hende ud på en anderledes rejse – en videnskabelig undersøgelse af kærlighedens natur.Kærlighedens videnskab er en ny disciplin. Den afdækker en historie, som strækker sig fra de evolutionære kræfter, der har sat rammerne for arten, til den spidsfindige hjerneaktivitet, der i sidste ende former det enkelte menneskes kærlighedsliv.Størst af alt – Om kærlighedens natur er en mosaik, hvor Lone Frank sammenstykker brikker fra naturvidenskab, psykologi og kulturforskning til at kortlægge kærlighedens natur, og samtidig en personlig opdagelsesrejse, der fører hende til et nyt sted i livet.

Andreas Mogensen skrev danmarkshistorie, da han 2. september 2015 blev sendt i rummet som første dansker nogensinde. I Min rejse til rummet fortæller Andreas om sin kamp for at blive astronaut, hvordan drømmen spirede som barn, og om hvordan han som ung og voksen konstant rettede uddannelse og jobs mod ét mål: at blive astronaut. Vi hører om de krævende test, som Andreas Mogensen og fem andre bestod blandt 10.000 ansøgere hos Den Europæiske Rumorganisation. Og han fortæller om den ekstreme astronauttræning, der bl.a. foregår dybt nede i mørke grotter i Italien, på havets bund i USA, i høje luftlag og i endeløse simuleringer i rumkapsler i Stjernebyen i Rusland. Ikke mindst fortæller Andreas Mogensen detaljeret om sin mission i rummet, om den højspændte raketafsendelse fra jorden, om at suse i en rumkapsel med 28.000 km. i timen, om tilkoblingen til Den Internationale Rumstation og den nervepirrende tur tilbage til Jorden. Og så fortæller han om livet på rumstationen: om den vigtige forskning og de mange forsøg, og om de komiske og udfordrende oplevelser ved at være vægtløs: at svæve gennem modulerne, spise, børste tænder, sove – helt almindelige hverdagsting, der kan drille, når intet er ”op” eller ”ned”. Andreas Mogensen tager i denne bog læseren med på en betagende rejse og ser frem mod nye missioner. En inspirerende fortælling om at nå sine mål og have hele verden – ja universet – som sin arbejdsplads.

Hvordan forholder man sig til det moderne menneskes afhængighed over for computeren og andre medier?For at få ro til at finde svaret, opsøger forfatteren kirkegården. Her taler han problemerne igennem med et gammelt egetræ, som begejstret lever sig ind i beretningen om hans dag med alle dens impulser, tilbud og krav. Samtaler med et træ er et forsøg på at vise forskellen på verdens viden og træets visdom, på information og klogskab, og et opgør med myten om at information er god og nyttig til alle tider i alle sammenhæng. Bogen er en odyssé gennem alle de problemer, som det moderne samfunds opmærksomhedskrige starter, og ved forfatterens beretning forundres træet over computernes og informationshungerens magt over menneskers fantasi, deres vaner, deres liv. Bogen er fuld af humor, alvor, satire, ironi og ærlighed. Den er således en vigtig modgift mod den ureflekterede betagelse af teknologiens muligheder. Bogen er udgivet internationalt og har solgt mere end 12000 eksemplarer i Danmark. I Danmark har den modtaget en pris fra forfatterforeningen for at være årets mest interessante bud på en anderledes fagbog. Et uddrag af bogen kan læses på: www.stemningshotellet.dk

'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind' The Times In Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. And we hear of his return to London, an emotionally bereft ten-year-old who found solace in his passion for learning. Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.

Gareth Steel wants you to understand vets in a way you never could have before.How it feels to watch a healed dog bound into their owner's arms. The joy of breathing life into the fluid-filled lungs of a newborn calf after a difficult labour. The satisfaction of rescuing a distressed sheep from the high-tide line.What it's like to work 100-hour weeks for less than the minimum wage. How it can scar your soul to euthanize a beloved puppy with its grieving family beside you. The pressure of having to know such a diverse range of medicine, that one hour you can be protecting yourself from a dangerously distressed horse and the next you can be performing delicate surgery on a tiny mouse. How all these pressures have built up to the extent that vets have four times the national suicide rate, and why.Gareth Steel has been a vet for nearly twenty years and has worked all over the UK, across both rural and city practices, dealing with all manner of household pets and farm animals. This is his fascinating raw account of just how involved the job is and the toll the extreme emotions that come with it can take, but it also a heart-warming and often humorous story of the desperate lengths we go to for the love of animals.

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, as well as with a group of patients who would define his life, it becomes clear that Sacks's earnest desire for engagement has occasioned unexpected encounters and travels - sending him through bars and alleys, over oceans, and across continents.With unbridled honesty and humour, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions - bodybuilding, weightlifting, and swimming - also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual, his guilt over leaving his family to come to America, his bond with his schizophrenic brother, and the writers and scientists - Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick - who influenced him.On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer - and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.

'Compelling and essential . . . will appeal to everyone who enjoyed Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt' Philippa PerryAward-winning GP Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews has spent almost 30 years working in the NHS. In this urgent, powerful, and deeply personal memoir she fearlessly reveals the struggles of working in a profession that has been broken by over-regulation.When Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews left the frontline buzz of hospital medicine for an NHS GP surgery, she was overwhelmed by the number of patients that were being let down by our healthcare system. Having witnessed the extent that box-ticking exercises were robbing her patients of their happiness, and sometimes their lives, she started to envisage a new way to care that put individuals and community at its centre.In What Seems To Be The Problem?, Laura tells the incredible stories of the patients, doctors, artists and complementary health practitioners that have shaped her years as a GP, and the new, holistic way to care they helped her to create. From heartfelt stories of hope and healing, to the heart-breaking consequences of caring for a community in need, this is a powerful story about medicine at a time when we need it the most, and an urgent call for change.

Som retsmediciner har Hans Petter Hougen set lidt af hvert, både når det gælder naturlige og mindre naturlige måder at komme af dage på. I denne bog gennemgår han drabsmetoder og kommer med eksempler fra blandt andet sit arbejde på Retsmedicinsk Institut i København og fra sin oplæring i Miami, USA. Hans Petter Hougen tager os også med ud til findesteds- og gerningsstedsundersøgelser og svarer på spørgsmål som: Hvordan finder retsmedicineren frem til en dødsårsag? Hvordan kan retsmedicinerens konklusioner hjælpe politiets efterforskning? Kan et drab kamufleres som ulykke eller naturlige årsager, og hvordan afslører retsmedicineren det? Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

I 1885 blev Danmarks første kvindelige læge uddannet. Hun hed Nielsine Nielsen (1850-1916) og hendes kamp for at få adgang til medicinstudiet banede vejen for, at flere kvinder siden fik lov at uddanne sig på universitetet. Ved Nielsine Nielsens død fandt man hendes ungdomserindringer, der både fortæller om dem, der hjalp hende frem mod målet, og om høje herrer, der skabte forhindringer. Erindringerne er før blevet udgivet i censureret form, men her er originalmanuskriptet. Nielsine Nielsens erindringer tegner et billede af en enestående og visionær kvinde. Som kvindesagsforkæmper er hun blevet kaldt for en af de vigtigste danske pionerer og normbrydere i det moderne gennembruds Danmark. Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

Den golde polarørken i det nordøstlige Grønland bærer på en hemmelighed fra fortiden. I 15 år forsøger Eske Willerslev og hans kolleger at få adgang til den, men den ene efter den anden må de give op – det er, som om der hviler en forbandelse over projektet. Men en dag bliver det umulige muligt: Han og hans kolleger ser forbløffet til, da det pludselig vælter ud med to millioner år gammelt liv. DNA-analysen fremkalder en mangfoldig skov med lærketræer, birketræer, cedertræer, lunde med blomster og forhistoriske mastodonter. For to millioner år siden levede Nordgrønland op til sit navn: Der var virkelig grønt – og meget varmere end i dag.JAGTEN PÅ VERDENS ÆLDSTE DNA er historien om Eske Willerslevs opdagelse af, at DNA findes i vores omgivelser og nedbrydes meget langsommere end hidtil antaget. Det betyder, at jord og is kan fortælle nye og overraskende historier om fortiden – om alt fra istidsdyrenes uddøen til hvilke planter og dyr, der kan leve i hvilket klima. Bogen handler om, hvordan Eske Willerslev og hans specialemakker fik idéen og grundlagde et helt nyt videnskabeligt felt. Den handler om tyve års opsigtsvækkende opdagelser og de mange udfordringer på vejen, og om samarbejde med et hav af kolleger fra nær og fjern, som tilsammen gjorde det muligt at finde verdens ældste DNA.I sidste ende handler bogen om, hvordan den dybe fortid bærer på et håb for fremtiden. For det ældgamle DNA fra Nordøstgrønland stammer fra en periode, der klimamæssigt minder om den, vi er på vej ind i – og det kan give os uvurderlig viden, når fødevareproduktionen en dag må flytte nordpå.

'Inspirational' - Professor Alice Roberts'Engrossing' - Professor Ben GarrodRhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim. As he recalls, he was born fighting and never stopped. His perspective on what life could offer him changed forever in the early 1980s when his grandfather took him to the local cinema to see Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark. The dream of emulating his hero Indiana Jones and travelling to the farthest reaches of the planet to explore exotic locations and its wildlife now burned deep inside him.As he progressed at school this passion to escape and explore was further kindled through the pages of an old natural history encyclopaedia given to him by his grandmother. Devouring the pages, the encyclopaedia would help craft his chosen path in life. Like his hero and namesake Indiana Jones, Rhys's journey has now taken him to all corners of the globe with friends and colleagues at every port; from the Australian outback to the furthest outpost of the Maasai tribe in Eastern Africa.In Becoming Dr Jones Rhys will take the reader on an inspiring journey through his life. One filled with highs, lows, humour and poignancy, as well as reverent insights into some of the amazing residents of our beloved natural world. If adventure had a name it would be Jones, and Dr Rhys Jones has taken that mantle to a whole new level!

A powerful and inspiring memoir about how one man's cancer diagnosis led to him become a doctor and advocate for change in the healthcare system.

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side, too. By its end, readers will feel they've made a charming, witty new friend' Frank WilczekThe world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work to show us how. It all starts with investigating the principles of physics by observing the sophisticated flight patterns of starlings. Studying the movements of these birds, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds - collections of everything from atoms to planets to other animals like ourselves. Along the way, Parisi reflects on the lessons he's taken from a life in pursuit of scientific truth: the importance of serendipity to the discovery of new ideas, the surprising kinship between physics and other fields of study and the value of science to a thriving society. In so doing, he removes the practice of science from the confines of the laboratory and into the real world. Complexity is all around us - from climate to finance to biology, it offers a unique way of finding order in chaos. Part elegant scientific treatise, part thrilling intellectual journey, In a Flight of Starlings is an invitation to find wonder in the world around us.

I 1885 blev Danmarks første kvindelige læge udlært. Hun hed Nielsine Nielsen (1850-1916) og hendes kamp for at få adgang til medicinstudiet banede vejen for, at flere kvinder siden fik lov at uddanne sig på universitetet. Ved Nielsine Nielsens død fandt man hendes ungdomserindringer, der både fortæller om dem, der hjalp hende frem mod målet, og om høje herrer, der skabte forhindringer. Erindringerne er før blevet udgivet i censureret form, men her er originalmanuskriptet. Nielsine Nielsens erindringer tegner et billede af en enestående og visionær kvinde. Som kvindesagsforkæmper er hun blevet kaldt for en af de vigtigste danske pionerer og normbrydere i det moderne gennembruds Danmark.Bogen er udgivet som historisk dokument med datidens sprogbrug.idden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlLæge Nielsine Nielsen (1850-1916) var Danmarks første kvindelige akademiker. Hun begyndte som den første kvinde nogensinde på lægestudiet ved Københavns Universitet i 1877, kort tid efter at kvinder havde fået ret til at blive indskrevet på universitetet. I 1885 færdiggjorde hun lægestudiet med topkarakterer, og fire år senere åbnede hun sin egen lægepraksis.

This unique collection examines `the acting person¿ as an important unit of analysis for science studies, using an integrative approach of in-depth case studies to explore the cognitive, social, cultural, and personal dimensions of a series of key figures in the sciences, from Goethe to Kepler to Rachel Carson.

'Never, never, never give in', Winston Churchill's famous quotation best sums up the life of Stephen Westaby, the world-leading cardiothoracic surgeon. This book chronicles the triumphs and failures of his surgical life, the lives saved and extended, the innovations (such as artificial hearts) he developed, and his research discoveries.Having spent his childhood in the backstreets of a northern steel town, he went on to become one of the world's preeminent heart surgeons. HIs drive for perfection in his profession took him to the world-renowned Harefield Hospital, the foremost heart surgery centre in Birmingham, Alabama, the newly-created Cardiothoracic Centre in Oxford, and then in 2019 in Wuhan he was the first Western doctor to learn about Covid before the virus was identified. Following on from his two earlier best-selling works, Fragile Lives and The Knife's Edge this volume is written with humour and a doctor's reverence for life and his patients. The Trauma Chronicles gives an unmissable insight into the world of one of the greatest living heart surgeons.

Feeling inadequate as a young doctor, Alicia Blando embarks upon a search for her life¿s path. Her ensuing journey leads her to seek out unconventional teachers, embrace the diagnostic capacity of astrology, and ultimately discover an astrological map that holds the potential to trace her life¿s path and purpose in connection with planetary movements: past, present, and future.