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Multiple sclerosis through history and human life / by Richard M. Swiderski.

Title: Multiple sclerosis through history and human life / by Richard M. Swiderski.
Author: Swiderski, Richard M.
Publication: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 1998.

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Description

210 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book is an historical and geographical overview of MS and the people who have studied it, as well as those who have lived and died with it over hundreds of years. An extensive bibliography lists not only scientific material, but personal narratives that bring the reader closer to an understanding of living with multiple sclerosis."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Multiple sclerosis

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The World of Multiple Sclerosis -- 1. The Earliest MS -- 2. MS Comes to Notice -- 3. Two MS Lives: Heine and d'Este -- 4. MS Embodied -- 5. An MS Milieu -- 6. Cases -- 7. Dissemination and Differential -- 8. The Realization of Pathology -- 9. The Great War -- 10. Epidemics -- 11. From Infection to Autoimmunity -- 12. The Swayback Workers -- 13. MS Goes Public -- 14. The Prayers of Vernon Olayos: Depictions of MS in Autobiography and Fiction -- App. List of Attempted MS Treatments.

ISBN

0786405627 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98037977^

OCLC

39627580

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library