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Medical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome

Author: Robert E Adler
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present.
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Genre/Form: Miscellanea
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Adler, Robert E., 1946-
Medical firsts.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004
(OCoLC)607062633
Online version:
Adler, Robert E., 1946-
Medical firsts.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004
(OCoLC)608591825
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert E Adler
ISBN: 0471401757 9780471401759
OCLC Number: 52509476
Description: vii, 232 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Hippocrates: a principle and a method --
Herophilus and Erasistratus: the light that failed --
Marcus Varro: the germ of an idea --
Dioscorides: the herb man of Anazarbus --
Soranus: the birthing doctor --
Galen of Pergamon: combative genius --
The enlightened mind of Abu Bakr al-Razi --
Ibn al-Nafis, Glen's nemesis --
Fracastoro: the poet of pestilence --
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.
Responsibility: Robert E. Adler.
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