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Title: Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
Author: Morton Meyers
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Year: 2007
Genre: Medical, science, history
390 pages
Meyers's contention is that scientific discoveries of the paradigm-shifting sort are not generally made by rote testing of compounds (for example), but by serendipitous accidents that are recognized as significant. His examples generally, though not always, support this position. It's clear from the degree to which he becomes exercised that cancer research was the impetous for this book.
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