Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery

The Race to Find the Body's Own Morphine

A true scientific pause-resister that traces a remarkable scientific breakthrough (the isolation of endorphins in the brain) as dedicated scientists race - not only with their fellow scientists - but against time and the profit hungry giant pharmaceutical companies. This audiobook chronicles the fascinating discovery of endorphins, the body's natural painkiller.

©1989 Jeff Goldberg (P)2013 Audible Inc.

A fly on the wall view

A wealth of details about the nitty gritty or mundane lives of scientists And their narcissism.
Vast amount of details of cut throat competition that occurs in pursuit of scientific truths.
I felt like the fly on the walls of research scientists ( call them detectives) inter-sanctums.

Readers should have knowledge of subject

The story is interesting but this reader should not have been selected or used for any scientific books. Reader has no training in how to pronounce amino acid names & puts emPHYsis on the wrong sylLAble. Constantly pronounces exOGenous as exoGENous. At one point confuses diabetes and diarrhea and later misreads or mispronounces amenorrhea for dysmenorrhea. (They are not the same!)

For someone familiar with how these words SHOULD be pronounced, it is like fingernails on a black board.
Publisher should screen or train readers before assigning.