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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | xiii | ||
| Preface | vii | ||
| Beginning from the Nobel Prize | 1 | ||
| Getting Informed about Winning the Nobel Prize | 1 | ||
| Award Ceremony | 2 | ||
| A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World | 2 | ||
| Setting Ambition at a Young Age | 5 | ||
| A Severe Disease | 5 | ||
| On the Origins of Tu Youyou’s Name | 6 | ||
| Turbulence and Disease | 7 | ||
| The Beginning of a Dream | 8 | ||
| Studying at Peking University | 11 | ||
| Entering Peking University | 11 | ||
| Selecting Pharmacognosy | 12 | ||
| The Legendary Professor Lou Zhicen | 13 | ||
| Mentor Lin Qishou | 15 | ||
| Wholeheartedly Moving Forward | 17 | ||
| Beginning of Work | 17 | ||
| Participating in “Traditional Chinese Medicine Training Workshops for Western Medical Doctors” | 19 | ||
| Sacrificing Family for Work | 21 | ||
| Encountering “Project 523” | 25 | ||
| Invitation from Project 523 | 26 | ||
| Origin of “Project 523” | 26 | ||
| Significance of “Project 523” | 28 | ||
| Horrible Malaria | 31 | ||
| A Horrible Disease | 31 | ||
| A Mysterious Leaf | 32 | ||
| A Scary Ballad | 33 | ||
| A Bold Inference | 33 | ||
| A Hateful Tyrant | 34 | ||
| History of the Antimalarial Fight | 35 | ||
| Handbook of Prescriptions for Emergency | 35 | ||
| Compendium of Materia Medica | 36 | ||
| A Knocking Brick for the Door of the Qing Dynasty | 37 | ||
| Legend of Cinchona | 38 | ||
| The Discovery of Ross | 39 | ||
| War and Malaria | 43 | ||
| The Battle of Gallipoli | 43 | ||
| World War II | 44 | ||
| The Vietnam War | 45 | ||
| The Sequel to Malaria | 46 | ||
| The Launch of Antimalarial Research | 47 | ||
| Collection of Antimalarial Prescriptions | 47 | ||
| The Indistinct Artemisia Annua L. | 48 | ||
| Firing the First Shot at Malaria | 49 | ||
| A Way Out | 50 | ||
| Inspiration and Success | 53 | ||
| Studying the Ancient Books of Traditional Chinese Medicine | 53 | ||
| Inspiration Piercing through Dark Clouds | 54 | ||
| Specimen 191 | 57 | ||
| The New Extraction Scheme | 57 | ||
| Specimen 191 | 58 | ||
| Ether with Low Boiling Point | 59 | ||
| Research on Artemisia annua L. | 60 | ||
| Experiments on Laboratory Rats | 61 | ||
| Pharmacodynamic Study | 62 | ||
| The Safety Experiment | 62 | ||
| Personally Testing Efficacy | 65 | ||
| Not Giving Up | 65 | ||
| Taking the Lead for a Personal Drug Trial | 66 | ||
| More Clinical Trials | 67 | ||
| Antimalarial Symphony | 71 | ||
| The Prologue | 71 | ||
| The Setback | 72 | ||
| The Upsurge | 73 | ||
| From Crystal to Drug | 75 | ||
| Extracting Antimalarial Monomer | 75 | ||
| Final Discovery of Artemisinin | 77 | ||
| Breathtaking Clinical Trials | 78 | ||
| A Large Stage in China | 79 | ||
| Unique Artemisinin | 81 | ||
| Kekule and the Benzene Ring | 81 | ||
| New Drug without Nitrogen | 82 | ||
| Terpenoids | 83 | ||
| Three-Dimensional Structure | 84 | ||
| Rectification of the Name of Artemisia annua L. | 87 | ||
| What is Artemisia annua L.? | 87 | ||
| Six Varieties of Artemisia annua L. | 88 | ||
| Each Showing Its Special Prowess | 91 | ||
| Artemisinin | 91 | ||
| Dihydroartemisinin | 93 | ||
| The Popular Artemether | 96 | ||
| Efficient Artesunate | 97 | ||
| Coartem | 98 | ||
| Introduction into Africa | 101 | ||
| Artemisia annua L. Farming | 101 | ||
| Establishment of Pharmaceutical Factories | 102 | ||
| Story of DDT | 103 | ||
| The Humble New Drug | 104 | ||
| Magical COTECXIN | 105 | ||
| Looking for the Discoverer | 107 | ||
| Censure and Dispute | 107 | ||
| Miller’s Search | 108 | ||
| Glory to Tu Youyou | 109 | ||
| Winning the Nobel Prize | 111 | ||
| Behind the Medal | 111 | ||
| Why Her? | 112 | ||
| Epilogue | 115 |