| Description |
xx, 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Part I Compass of Western Medicine -- Charles Darwin Biology and Medicine 3 -- RudolfVirchow The Scope of Modern Medicine: Cellular and Social 8 -- Claude Bernard Medicine and Modern Experimental Physiology 14 -- Louis Pasteur The Germ Theory of Disease: Microbiology 18 -- Robert Koch Foundations of Bacteriology 24 -- Hippocrates Rational Medicine 29 -- Galen Western Medical Tradition 34 -- Part II The Principal Transformations -- Andreas Vesalius The Fabrica and the New Anatomy 41 -- William Harvey Circulation of the Blood 45 -- Paracelsus A New Tradition in Medicine 50 -- Giovanni Morgagni "His Anatomical Majesty" 55 -- Xavier Bichat Doctrine of Tissues 58 -- Rene Laennec The Physician's New Gaze 62 -- Johannes Muller The Rise of German Medicine 67 -- Frangois Magendie "A Science in the Making" 71 -- Pierre Louis The Numerical Method 75 -- Carl Ludwig An "Integrated Approach" to Physiology 80 -- Jacob Henle Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, and Pathology 84 -- Florence Nightingale Modern Nursing 88 -- Joseph Lister Antisepsis and Modern Surgery 94 -- Wilhelm Conrad R6ntgen The Discovery of X Rays 100 -- Theodor Boveri The Chromosomes 105 -- Santiago Ram6n y Cajal Discovering the Neurons 109 -- Oswald Avery The "Transforming Principle": DNA 113 -- Part III Figures of Constant Reference -- Ambroise Pare The Rise of Surgery 119 -- Bernardino Ramazzini Occupational Diseases and Environmental Hazards 123 -- Girolamo Fracastoro A Poem About Syphilis, a Theory of Contagion 127 -- Thomas Sydenham The "English Hippocrates" 132 -- Hermann Boerhaave Medicine in the Eighteenth Century 136 -- John Hunter Beginnings of Scientific Medicine and Surgery 140 -- Pierre Fauchard Founder of Modern Dentistry 145 -- Philippe Pinel Treating the Insane 148 -- Edward Jenner Vaccination Against Smallpox 152 -- William Thomas Green Morton The Demonstration of Anesthesia 157 -- John Snow Field Epidemiology Begins at the Broad Street Pump 162 -- lgnaz Semmelweis Tragic Insight into Childbed Fever 165 -- Theodor Billroth Surgery Comes of Age 169 -- Sigmund Freud The Rise, Decline, and Persistence of Psychoanalysis 173 -- Part IV Creating Modern Medicine -- William Osler Modern Clinical Medicine 181 -- Elie Metchnikoff Cellular Immunity 186 -- Willem Einthoven Inventing Electrocardiography 191 -- Emil von Behring Humoral Immunity 195 -- Alexis Carrel Surgery, Science, and Mon, the Unknown 199 -- Frederick Banting The Discovery of Insulin 205 -- Walter B. Cannon The Wisdom of the Body 210 -- Archibald Garrod Genetic Disorders and Biochemical Individuality 214 -- Otto Warburg Basic Discoveries in Biochemistry 218 -- Abraham Flexner Educating Doctors 222 -- Harvey Cushing Arrival of the Brain Surgeon 227 -- Hans Spemann Embryology and the "Organizer" 232 -- Henry Dale Discovering the First Neurotransmitter 236 -- Hans Krebs The Krebs Cycle 240 -- Howard Florey The Discovery of Penicillin 245 -- Wilder Penfield Neurology: Mapping the Brain 251 -- Selman Waksman Microbes from the Soil 256 -- Peyton Rous Cancer: A Viral Theory 261 -- John Franklin Enders Persuading Viruses to Multiply 266 -- Ernst Ruska Inventing the Electron Microscope 270 -- Willem J. Kolff Spare Parts Medicine 275 -- Macfarlane Burnet A New Theory of the Immune System 280 -- Part V Recent and Contemporary -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Radioimmunoassay 287 -- Benjamin Spock Raising Children in a Complicated World 291 -- Arthur Kornberg The Enzyme Hunter 296 -- Carleton Gajdusek A New Agent of Disease 302 -- Ernst Wynder Smoking, Health, and Preventive Medicine 307 -- Melanie Klein Psychiatry: New Trends in Psychoanalysis 312 -- Godfrey Hounsfield The Revolution in Diagnostic Imaging 317 -- Jean Dausset Molecular Self and Nonself 321 -- James Black The Rational Search for New Drugs 326 -- Walter Gilbert Molecular Biology Takes Command 330 -- Solomon Snyder Advances in Neuroscience 335 -- William Masters Sex Research and Therapy 340 -- Gerald M. Edelman The Chemistry of Immunity and the Biology of Neurology -- 345 -- Harold Varmus Molecular Pathways to Cancer 351 -- Raymond Damadian Magnetic Resonance Imaging 356 -- Bert Vogelstein A Genetic Explanation for Cancer 361 -- Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier The Contentious Discovery of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) 365 -- Part VI Omnium-Gatherum -- Celsus Cicero of Medicine 375 -- lbn Sina (Avicenna) Princeof Physicians 379 -- Louise Bourgeois Persistence of the Midwife 383 -- Samuel Hahnemann The Progressof Homeopathy 387 -- Daniel David Palmer Chiropractic 392 -- Lydia Pinkham "ASureCure" 396 -- Paul de Kruif The Microbe Hunters 401 -- Henri Dunant Founding the Red Cross 405 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-450) and index |
| Subject |
Physicians -- Biography.
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Medical scientists -- Biography.
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Medicine -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2001059353 |
| ISBN |
0618152768 |
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