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Medical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome / Robert E. Adler.
- Title
- Medical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome / Robert E. Adler.
- Author
- Adler, Robert E., 1946-
- Publication
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2004.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 232 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- An exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present.
- Subject
- Medicine > History > Miscellanea
- Medical innovations > History > Miscellanea
- Medicine > History
- Microbiology
- Physicians
- History of Medicine
- Genetics
- Genetics > history
- Microbiology > history
- Physicians > history
- Médecine > Histoire > Miscellanées
- Médecine > Innovations > Histoire > Miscellanées
- Médecine > Histoire
- Microbiologie
- Médecins
- history of medicine
- microbiology
- physicians
- Medical innovations
- Medicine
- Ontdekkingen
- Geneeskunde
- Medicinhistoria
- Mikrobiologi > historia > biografi
- Genetik > historia > biografi
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- miscellanies.
- Biographies
- Trivia and miscellanea
- History
- Miscellanées.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-225) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0471401757
- 9780471401759
- LCCN
- 2003014212
- 9780471401759
- OCLC
- 52509476
- SCSB-10038160
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library