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Doctors and discoveries : lives that created today's medicine
- Title
- Doctors and discoveries : lives that created today's medicine / John Galbraith Simmons.
- Author
- Simmons, John, 1949-
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2002.
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- Description
- xx, 459 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.
- Alternative Title
- Doctors & discoveries
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-450) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: A human dimension to the history of medicine -- Part I. Compass of Western medicine : -- Charles Darwin : biology and medicine -- Rudolf Virchow : the scope of modern medicine : cellular and social -- Claude Bernard : medicine and modern experimental physiology -- Louis Pasteur : the germ theory of disease : microbiology -- Robert Koch : foundations of bacteriology -- Hippocrates : rational medicine -- Galen : western medical tradition.
- Part II. The principal transformations : -- Andreas Vesalius : The Fabrica and the new anatomy -- William Harvey : circulation of the blood -- Paracelsus : a new tradition in medicine -- Giovanni Morgagni : "his anatomical majesty" -- Xavier Bichat : doctrine of tissues -- René Laennec : the physician's new gaze -- Johannes Müller : the rise of German medicine -- François Magendie : "a science in the making" -- Pierre Louis : the numerical method -- Carl Ludwig : an "integrated approach" to physiology -- Jacob Henle : anatomy, histology, physiology, and pathology -- Florence Nightingale : modern nursing -- Joseph Lister : antisepsis and modern surgery -- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen : the discovery of x rays -- Theodor Boveri : the chromosomes -- Santiago Ramón y Cajal : discovering the neurons -- Oswald Avery : the "transforming principle" : DNA.
- Part III. Figures of constant reference : -- Ambroise Paré : the rise of surgery -- Bernardino Ramazzini : occupational diseases and environmental hazards -- Girolamo Fracastoro : a poem about syphilis, a theory of contagion -- Thomas Sydenham : the "English Hippocrates" -- Hermann Boerhaave : medicine in the eighteenth century -- John Hunter : beginnings of scientific medicine and surgery -- Pierre Fauchard : founder of modern dentistry -- Philippe Pinel : treating the insane -- Edward Jenner : vaccination against smallpox -- William Thomas Green Morton : the demonstration of anesthesia -- John Snow : field epidemiology begins at the Broad Street pump -- lgnaz Semmelweis : tragic insight into childbed fever -- Theodor Billroth : surgery comes of age -- Sigmund Freud : the rise, decline, and persistence of psychoanalysis.
- Part IV. Creating modern medicine : -- William Osier : modem clinical medicine -- Elie Metchnikoff : cellular immunity -- Willem Einthoven : inventing electrocardiography -- Emil von Behring : humoral immunity -- Alexis Carrel : surgery, science, and man, the unknown -- Frederick Banting : the discovery of insulin -- Walter B. Cannon : the wisdom of the body -- Archibald Garrod : genetic disorders and biochemical individuality -- Otto Warburg : basic discoveries in biochemistry -- Abraham Flexner : educating doctors -- Harvey Cushing : arrival of the brain surgeon -- Hans Spemann : embryology and the "organizer" -- Henry Dale : discovering the first neurotransmitter -- Hans Krebs : the Krebs cycle -- Howard Florey : the discovery of penicillin -- Wilder Penfield : neurology : mapping the brain -- Selman Waksman : microbes from the soil -- Peyton Rous : cancer: a viral theory -- John Franklin Enders : persuading viruses to multiply -- Ernst Ruska : inventing the electron microscope -- Willem J. Kolff : spare parts medicine -- Macfarlane Burnet : a new theory of the immune system.
- Part V. Recent and contemporary : -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow : Radioimmunoassay -- Benjamin Spock : raising children in a complicated world -- Arthur Kornberg : the enzyme hunter -- Carleton Gajdusek : a new agent of disease -- Ernst Wynder : smoking, health, and preventive medicine -- Melanie Klein : psychiatry : new trends in psychoanalysis -- Godfrey Hounsfield : the revolution in diagnostic imaging -- Jean Dausset : molecular self and nonself -- James Black : the rational search for new drugs -- Walter Gilbert : molecular biology takes command -- Solomon Snyder : advances in neuroscience -- William Masters : sex research and therapy -- Gerald M. Edelman : the chemistry of immunity and the biology of neurology -- Harold Varmus : molecular pathways to cancer -- Raymond Damadian : magnetic resonance imaging -- Bert Vogelstein : a genetic explanation for cancer -- Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier : the contentious discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
- Part VI. Omnium-gatherum : -- Celsus : Cicero of medicine -- lbn Sina (Avicenna) : prince of physicians -- Louise Bourgeois : persistence of the midwife -- Samuel Hahnemann : the progress of homeopathy -- Daniel David Palmer : chiropractic -- Lydia Pinkham : "a sure cure ..." -- Paul de Kruif : the microbe hunters -- Henri Dunant : founding the Red Cross -- Envoy.
- ISBN
- 0618152768
- 9780618152766
- LCCN
- 2001059353
- OCLC
- ocm48649291
- 48649291
- SCSB-1249552
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library