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Mavericks, miracles, and medicine : the pioneers who risked their lives to bring medicine into the modern age / Julie M. Fenster.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Carroll & Graf, c2003.Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf edDescription: xv, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0786712368
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610/.92/2 22
LOC classification:
  • R134.5 .F46 2003
Contents:
UNDERSTANDING THE BODY, The art of medicine : Observation and anatomy (Andreas Vesalius) -- A peculiar light : The first X-ray (Wilhelm Roentgen) -- Picture of youth : The cardiac catheter (Werner Forssmann) -- Never say die : Cloning a mammal (Ian Wilmut and Dolly) -- GERM THEORY, Perfect focus : The microscopic world (Antony van Leeuwenhoek) -- Too much trouble : Hospital cleanliness (Ignaz Semmelweis) -- Public enemy : The tuberclerosis bacillus (Robert Koch) -- Trailing death : "Typhoid Mary" (George A. Soper and Mary Mallon) -- MAGIC BULLETS, Worldly wise : Smallpox innoculation (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) -- Tag Ook : Salvarsan for syphilis (Paul Ehrlich) -- Et Al : A drug for TB (Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz) -- Battery operated : The cardiac pacemaker (Arne and Else-Marie Larsson) -- THE MIND, Organized brain : Depicting cranial anatomy (Thomas Willis) -- Lost in thought : Phrenology (Franz Joseph Gall) -- Ether frolic : Surgical anesthetic (Horace Wells, William T. G. Morton, and Charles Jackson) -- Human feeling : Brain localization and the animal-rights debate (David Ferrier and Frances Power Cobbe) -- TOWARD BETTER SURGERY, Transfusion of murder : Experiments in blood transfusion (Jean-Baptiste Denis) -- Master of the system : Blood circulation (William Harvey) -- Long way to bypass : The heart-lung machine (John H. Gibbon Jr.) -- A bit of life : Kidney transplantation (Joseph E. Murray and John P. Merrill).
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Book Book Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level R134.5 .F46 2003 1 Available 38060007142086
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"The companion to The History Channel series Mavericks, miracles, and medicine, created ... by Jeffrey Tuchman"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

UNDERSTANDING THE BODY, The art of medicine : Observation and anatomy (Andreas Vesalius) -- A peculiar light : The first X-ray (Wilhelm Roentgen) -- Picture of youth : The cardiac catheter (Werner Forssmann) -- Never say die : Cloning a mammal (Ian Wilmut and Dolly) -- GERM THEORY, Perfect focus : The microscopic world (Antony van Leeuwenhoek) -- Too much trouble : Hospital cleanliness (Ignaz Semmelweis) -- Public enemy : The tuberclerosis bacillus (Robert Koch) -- Trailing death : "Typhoid Mary" (George A. Soper and Mary Mallon) -- MAGIC BULLETS, Worldly wise : Smallpox innoculation (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) -- Tag Ook : Salvarsan for syphilis (Paul Ehrlich) -- Et Al : A drug for TB (Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz) -- Battery operated : The cardiac pacemaker (Arne and Else-Marie Larsson) -- THE MIND, Organized brain : Depicting cranial anatomy (Thomas Willis) -- Lost in thought : Phrenology (Franz Joseph Gall) -- Ether frolic : Surgical anesthetic (Horace Wells, William T. G. Morton, and Charles Jackson) -- Human feeling : Brain localization and the animal-rights debate (David Ferrier and Frances Power Cobbe) -- TOWARD BETTER SURGERY, Transfusion of murder : Experiments in blood transfusion (Jean-Baptiste Denis) -- Master of the system : Blood circulation (William Harvey) -- Long way to bypass : The heart-lung machine (John H. Gibbon Jr.) -- A bit of life : Kidney transplantation (Joseph E. Murray and John P. Merrill).

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