'Martin Goodman's vivid and reverential biography is, incredibly, the first ever published about Haldane, a medical adventurer in an epic quest to personally explore the limits of human endurance and save lives… Suffer and Survive is much more than a litany of the gruesome realities of the industrial revolution and is often surprisingly funny, littered with anecdotes and quotes from Haldane's letters… Goodman successfully avoids what might have been a dry academic study and delivers - to use Victorian terminology - a darn good yarn about a darn good man while weaving through a maze of scientific facts and figures.' - The Scotsman
John Scott Haldane led one of science's most adventurous and successful lives. It was he who first introduced canaries into mines. Dropping into the infernos of exploded mines he brought in essential mine safety measures. This was the scientist who also prevented the bends for divers; introduced the salt tablet for extreme heat; devised the first space suit; and was sent by the Allies into the trenches of the First World War to understand what gases had been released by German scientists and develop gas masks to combat them. For his work on gas victims he became known as 'the father of deep oxygen treatment' and his whole life's work saw him pushng the boundaries of science to understand what we now think of as the Gaian principle, the inter-relatedness of all living things.
John Scott Haldane led one of science's most adventurous and successful lives. It was he who first introduced canaries into mines. Dropping into the infernos of exploded mines he brought in essential mine safety measures. This was the scientist who also prevented the bends for divers; introduced the salt tablet for extreme heat; devised the first space suit; and was sent by the Allies into the trenches of the First World War to understand what gases had been released by German scientists and develop gas masks to combat them. For his work on gas victims he became known as 'the father of deep oxygen treatment' and his whole life's work saw him pushng the boundaries of science to understand what we now think of as the Gaian principle, the inter-relatedness of all living things.
