{"product_id":"next-stop-neverland-renato-giordano-9791280378019","title":"Next Stop Neverland: The Novel of Insulin","description":"\u003cp\u003eA premise: The train of life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It happened to me: I was puffing and trudging on top of my train\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eup the hill, and the engine, even though it was going at full speed, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas slow and bogged down in the slush. Therefore, I jumped on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanother locomotive, which was going in the opposite direction! I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egave my life a further acceleration and started to run fast on a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esoft, snowy road surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePower or ability is useless if you don't run on the right road. People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave different ways of getting to power or doing things the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebest way they can. Nevertheless, the question we always ask ourselves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis: are we on the right path?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs our journey what it was meant to be, or are we going in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewrong direction?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur time is determined, and it is difficult to measure. It flows away\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut it flows on the road that has been marked by the locomotive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat we have chosen. This should never be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt happened to me: I jumped on the right train.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne sleepless night, when I was thinking about my debts, how unhappy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was, and couldn't fall asleep. I had an idea that would\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echange the history of diabetes. I was reading an article published\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein a medical journal that I received that day, titled 'The relationship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebetween islets of Langerhans and diabetes in a case of pancreatic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elithiasis' by Moses Barron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong other things he said that those who had damage of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eislets of Langerhans became diabetic and that the damage was an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eobstruction damage...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith these words, Frederick Banting summarized the meaning of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis life and the genesis of the discovery of insulin, after the award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the Nobel Prize for Medicine in Stockholm in 1923, and this\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estory is incredible. Just as incredible is the story of the Nobel Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eawarded to two researchers: Banting himself (then a 32-year-old\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoctor) and Professor James Macleod, Professor of Physiology at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe University of Toronto, an expert on carbohydrate metabolism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobel divided then further for four, including Charles Best and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBert Collip, two other researchers, with an endless procession of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtroversy, recriminations and disputes...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, the story of the discovery of insulin that I want to tell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einvolves many other exceptional people, or exceptionally normal, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas in a fascinating game of Chinese boxes. Their names are August\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Marie Krogh, Nicolae Paulescu, George L. Zuezler, Eli Lilly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esr, George Alec Clowes, and, for different reasons, Elisabeth Hughes, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSergej Diaghilev, Leonard Thompson. Researchers, scientists, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoctors, but also just women and men who discovered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethemselves as diabetics, in a historical period in which this disease\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estill meant death in a few years from the time of diagnosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of insulin, in one way or another has changed the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elives of all of them, as well as many other millions of people. Exceptional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople or exceptional normality that have met on the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrain of life, sitting in the same compartment, crossing in one of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe many railway stations, or simply, in some cases, arriving late\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the platform and missing the connection with the train of destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Renato Giordano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9791280378019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Compagnia Nuove Indye - Look Studio Srl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Renato Giordano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800837796095,"sku":"9791280378019","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/next-stop-neverland-renato-giordano-9791280378019","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}