HOT SCIENCE

摘要

In the years following World War I, Cooper and Ainsberg find doctors on the cusp of understanding diabetes after millennia of fearing it. The imagined dialogue is a tad forced, but the narrative captures the era's terror of disease balanced against the excitement of discovery. A young patient, Elizabeth Hughes, endures a 400-calorie-per-day starvation treatment while a sometimes dysfunctional team of researchers races to isolate insulin and save her life.