Insulin and Intrigue (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Independently Published, 2026

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Série : Livre 3 sur 13 - The Nobel Medicine Stories: A Decade-by-Decade Short Story Series

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Paperback. Insulin and Intrigue is Book 3 in a 13-book series of interconnected short story collections inspired by the discoveries behind the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In these ten stories set from 1920 to 1929, the battle for truth shifts from the bedside to the network, and discovery is immediately met by the machinery of the state, the market, and the museum. It is a decade where science is sold as spectacle, standards are hardened, and truth is managed through the cold precision of the ledger. Inside these stories, medicine advances through high-stakes episodes where evidence is a double-edged sword. A mountain sanatorium's promise of pure air masks a dangerous mismatch in micro-circulation, while in boxing gyms and elite athletic clubs, new measurements reveal metabolic debts that defy heroic narratives. The arrival of a miracle vial triggers a black-market crisis where the only defense is a rigid chain of custody. A courtroom must weigh the heart's electrical trace against a politically convenient story, and a museum exhibit becomes a battleground over who controls the narrative of causation. From the wards of a prison hospital to the maps of an epidemiologist, discovery is used to challenge the mechanisms of coercion and scapegoating. Finally, in colonial ports and children's homes, the rigid math of calories is used to ignore the quiet, lethal absence of what the body truly needs to survive. Woven through the decade is a recurring cast moving through a world of shifting standards. There is Dr. Eleanor Harrington, a strategist turning proof into branding and institutional survival; Maisie Fenn, an investigations editor building a shadow archive of the anomalies and suppressed drafts that others would rather forget; Silas Crowe, a logistics conscience who learns that integrity makes more enemies than crime; and Dahlia Sato, a "numbers whisperer" who treats measurement as a weapon to protect the body. In these noir-tinted historical medical stories, discovery is only the beginning. The real fight is no longer just what is true, but who gets to define it, record it, or quietly replace it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Insulin and Intrigue (Paperback)
Auteur
Simon Alden
Éditeur
Independently Published
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798249950750
Série
Livre 3 sur 13: The Nobel Medicine Stories: A Decade-by-Decade Short Story Series

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