Thomas Hager

Thomas Hager is an award-winning author of books on the history of science and medicine, including The Alchemy of Air and Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine. He is a courtesy associate professor of journalism and communication at the University of Oregon.

Thomas Hager's Titles

Electric City The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia

Electric City

The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American historyHenry Ford and Thomas Edisonand their attempt to create an electric-powered...


Ten Drugs How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

Ten Drugs

Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new...