Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong.

The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his patients' brains. Another Nobel laureate thought malaria cured syphilis. The discoverer of anaphylactic shock also researched the spirit world and ESP. A pioneer of organ transplants was an ardent eugenicist, while the founder of sports physiology heroically spoke out against Nazism.

Boneheads and Brainiacsprofiles the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine from 1901 to 1950-a surprisingly diverse group of racists, cranks, and opportunists, as well as heroes, geniuses, and selfless benefactors of humanity. Forget all the ivory tower stereotypes of white-coated doctors finding miracle cures.Boneheads and Brainiacsreveals the messy human reality behind medical progress, in a highly entertaining book written for the ordinary reader.

Some were bad scientists; others were great scientists and lousy human beings. But the majority of these researchers produced knowledge that now saves millions of lives-priceless discoveries like the role of vitamins in nutrition, the dangers of radiation, treatments for diabetes and deadly infectious diseases, and more.Boneheads and Brainiacsshowcases the enthralling, all-too-human personal lives that made modern medicine possible.

Preface
Introduction
The Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize Rules
Chapter 1: The First Nobel Prize
Chapter 2: The Parasite and the Pest
Chapter 3: A Bright Future
Chapter 4: Science Promotes a Slave State
Chapter 5: His Eminence
Chapter 6: The Mistaken Observer and Dr. Bacteria
Chapter 7: The Obvious Suspects
Chapter 8: Immunity Wars
Chapter 9: Accidental Harm, Chocolate, and the Nobel Prize
Chapter 10: The Perpetual Chicken
Chapter 11: Another Eugenicist
Chapter 12: Balance
Chapter 13: Fighting Infection
Chapter 14: Blood, Sweat and Sugar
Chapter 15: The Gentile and the Jew
Chapter 16: The Canadian Diabetes Discoveries
Chapter 17: Reading the Secrets of the Heart
Chapter 18: Dead Wrong
Chapter 19: Fever Therapy and War Crimes
Chapter 20: Of Lice and Men
Chapter 21: Hidden Vitality
Chapter 22: Of the Type that Saved Millions of Lives
Chapter 23: Greatest Influence from the Lowest Profile
Chapter 24: The Brain Is Not the Mind
Chapter 25: American Genesis
Chapter 26: Eat Your Liver
Chapter 27: Shades of Cloning
Chapter 28: Brain Chemistry 101
Chapter 29: Starting at the Wrong End
Chapter 30: Matters of the Heart
Chapter 31: Brimstone
Chapter 32: Bleeding Chickens
Chapter 33: Hitting a Nerve
Chapter 34: The Rediscovery of Penicillin
Chapter 35: Godzilla in the Making
Chapter 36: Sugar Metabolism
Chapter 37: The Making of a Silent Spring
Chapter 38: Scrambled Brains
Chapter 39: More Hormones
Chapter 40: Nobel Influences
Points of Interest