Did you ever consider that the tragedies of war might have led to some of modern medicine’s most miraculous discoveries, ones that have saved countless millions from a lifetime of blindness? Or that a pair of eyeglasses kept safe America’s democracy - and Teddy Roosevelt’s life? Why it’s too late now to start if you ever wanted to be a world-class baseball player or golfer? That there really is an evil eye and voodoo magic is no old wife’s tale?
In this collection of thought provoking essays, Dr. Saad Shaikh draws upon these curious visions of science to introduce us to the hidden world of our eyes, and it turns out to be a world more interesting than we might ever have imagined. From the modern age of molecular biology and genetics to a future of stem cells and nanoscience, Eyes on Ice & No Blind Mice brings us eye to eye with the events, discoveries, and individuals that continue to shape the medicine and science of vision. It makes this abstract part of our bodies, our eyes, familiar to us all.
Saad Shaikh, M.D. is a practicing physician and retinal surgeon in Orlando, Florida. He attended medical school at the University of California, Davis and was trained in Ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He then specialized in retinal surgery at one of this country's premier training programs at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Dr. Shaikh has authored a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in his discipline, and he has participated in a number of research trials investigating emerging therapies for retinal disease. Dr. Shaikh is also an assistant professor and teaches at the University of South Florida, College of Medicine.
For more information on Dr. Shaikh please visit his website at www.saadshaikh.com.