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Medical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome
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Medical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome / Robert E. Adler.
ISBN
0471401757
Published
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004.
Physical Description
vii, 232 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-225) and index.
Contents
Hippocrates : a principle and a method
Herophilus and Erasistratus : the light that failed
Marcus Varro : the germ of an idea
Soranus : the birthing doctor
Galen of Pergamon : combative genius
The enlightened mind of Abu Bakr al-Razi
Ibn al-Nafis : Galen's nemesis
Paracelsus : renaissance rebel
Andreas Vesalius : driven to dissection
Johann Weyer : a voice of sanity in an insane world
William Harvey and the movements of the heart
Edward Jenner : a friend of humanity
Such stuff as dreams are made on : the discovery of anesthesia
Antisepsis : awakening from a nightmare
The quiet Dr. Snow
Pasteur and the germ theory of disease
Out of the corner of his eye : Roentgen discovers x-rays
Sigmund Freud's dynamic unconscious
Beyond bacteria : Ivanovsky's discovery of viruses
The prepared mind of Alexander Fleming
Margaret Sanger and the pill
Organ transplantation : a legacy of life
A baby's cry : the birth of in vitro fertilization
Humanity eradicates a disease
smallpox
for the first time
Cannibals, kuru and mad cows : a new kind of plague
Self, non-self and danger : deciphering the immune system
Discovery can't wait : cracking the human genome
Into the future.
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