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Stars Beneath The Sea
Stars Beneath The Sea
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Reflections on a Summer Sea
Reflections on a Summer Sea
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Stars Beneath The Sea
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Underwater To Get Out Of The Rain
Underwater To Get Out Of The Rain
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Underwater to Get out of the Rain
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Imagination and a Pile of Junk
Imagination and a Pile of Junk
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For a Few Quid More
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Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

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Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

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4.11 (131 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 4 February, 2010

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"Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth" is a hilarious celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind, written with all the wit, humour and eye for the beauties of nature - and machinery and scientific equipment - that have gained Trevor Norton a cult following and critical acclaim. Many have followed the advice of the great Victorian scientist Jack Haldane to 'never experiment on an animal if a man will do' and 'never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn't do yourself'. He and his father inhaled poisonous gases to test the efficacy of the prototype gas mask they had invented. When breathing gases under pressure he suffered the smoking ears and screaming teeth of the title. The stories are astonishing, disturbing or absurd - the Marquis de Sade meets Monty Python. John Hunter pioneered self-experimentation and deliberately infected himself with venereal diseases by the puss transference method and gave his name to chancre of the penis. The zoologist Frank Buckland made a concentrated effort to widen the nation's diet by personally testing everything that crossed his path, from boiled elephant's trunk to bluebottles. He published recipes for such delicacies as slug soup. Some medics deliberately contracted deadly blood diseases in the hope of finding cures. Then there was the surgeon who got the sack and won the Nobel prize for thrusting a catheter into his own beating heart. Trevor Norton writes that self-experimentation is still a component of much scientific research. In our health and safety obsessed society, we need people who are willing to risk themselves to make life safer for us.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781846055690
ISBN10 1846055695
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 557 g
Product Dimensions 132 x 40 x 216 mm
Publisher / Reseller Century
Format hardback
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This is a rip-snortingly entertaining omnium gatherum of the riskiest and most extraordinary experiments in the history of science and medicine, told in breezy-pop science manner Daily Mail Wonderful ... Professor Norton writes with engaging fluency and is easily understood by the non-scientist Independent This book is guaranteed to make you wince, laugh and marvel at the bravery and foolhardiness of the people who, through their own discomfort, have made our own lives a good deal better Telegraph packed full of amusing anecdotes ... delightful Mail on Sunday His research has been intensive and his material is rich and plentiful...This book may not be for the squeamish or the very gentle of disposition but you soon come to share Norton's admiration for these crazed men and women Spectator

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Author's Bio

Trevor Norton is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool, having retired from the Chair of Marine Biology. He has published widely on ecological topics. He is also an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Manx Studies on the Isle of Man where he lives. His much acclaimed books include Stars Beneath the Sea, Reflections on a Summer Sea and Under Water to Get out of the Rain.

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