Sydnee McElroy,Justin McElroy
Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
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The Sawbones Podcast, hosted by Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin, explores centuries of medical myths, mishaps, and mayhem, including modern medicine and pandemics. The new Paperback edition of the bestselling Sawbones Book provides a fascinating, horrifying, funny, and memorable tour through medical experimentation and practice. It covers topics such as trepanation, the COVID-19 pandemic, Norovirus, Chickenpox, Diabetes, and more, inspired by Sawbones 300+ podcast episodes. The podcast is rated a top podcast on iTunes and has over 15 million total downloads. It is both hilarious and educational, helping listeners figure out if medical advice is a miracle cure or a scam.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 27 October 2020
Publisher: Weldon Owen, Incorporated
New for 2020! Join the 750,000 listeners of the Sawbones Podcast as Dr Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin humorously discuss centuries of medical myths, mishaps, and mayhem, including modern-day medicine and pandemics.
Newly revised and updated for 2020, this new Paperback edition of the bestselling Sawbones Book gives you a fascinating, horrifying, funny, and memorable tour through centuries of medical experimentation and practice (and sometimes malpractice). Learn about trepanation, the COVID-19 pandemic, Norovirus, Chickenpox, Diabetes, and more, all inspired by Sawbones' 300+ podcast episodes.
Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered drilling a hole in your head to deal with those pesky headaches? Probably not! But for thousands of years, people have done things like this—and things that make radioactive underpants seem downright sensible! In their hit podcast, Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin McElroy breakdown the weird and wonderful way we got to modern healthcare. . . . and some of the terrifying detours along the way.
Every week, Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin amaze, amuse, and gross out (depending on the week) hundreds of thousands of avid listeners to their podcast, Sawbones. Consistently rated a top podcast on iTunes, with over 15 million total downloads, this rollicking journey through thousands of years of medical mishaps and miracles is not only hilarious but downright educational. While you may never even consider applying boiled weasel to your forehead (once the height of sophistication when it came to headache cures), you will almost certainly face some questionable medical advice in your everyday life (w.
Weight: 586g
Dimension: 170 x 214 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781681886510
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