LIBRERIA RINASCITA, Ascoli Piceno - NEXT STOP NEVERLAND. THE NOVEL OF INSULIN di GIORDANO RENATO

<DescrizioneEstesa>The story of the discovery of insulin that I want to tell involves Frederick Banting (Nobel Prize for Medicine in Stockholm in 1923), James Macleod, Charles Best, Bert Collip and many other exceptional people, or exceptionally normal, as in a fascinating game of Chinese boxes. Their names are August and Marie Krogh, Nicolae Paulescu, George L. Zuezler, Eli Lillsr, George Alec Clowes, and, for different reasons, Elisabeth Hughes, Sergej Diaghilev, Leonard Thompson. Researchers, scientists, doctors, but also just women and men who discovered themselves as diabetics, in a historical period in which this disease still meant death in a few years from the time of diagnosis. The discovery of insulin, in one way or another has changed the lives of all of them, as well as many other millions of people. Exceptional people or exceptional normality that have met on the train of life, sitting in the same compartment, crossing in one of the many railway stations, or simply, in some cases, arriving late to the platform and missing the connection with the train of destiny.