TANGLED TRAIL
The story of how the world got Botox begins with death by sausage and winds up in a lab devoted to eye disease, with lots of accidents, some happy and some not, along the way.
Eugene M. Helveston, MD, is the author of Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox. He is emeritus professor of ophthalmology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Helveston's numerous honors include the Kellogg Scholar Award from the University of Michigan, the Humanitarian of the Year and Silver Recognition Award from the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology, and the Outstanding Humanitarian and Life Achievement Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has authored or co-authored three ophthalmology textbooks and over 300 scientific papers. He lives in Indianapolis.