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Science and technology in medicine : an illustrated account based on ninety-nine landmark publications from five centuries / Andras Gedeon.

Title: Science and technology in medicine : an illustrated account based on ninety-nine landmark publications from five centuries / Andras Gedeon.
Author: Gedeon, Andras
Publication: New York ; London : Springer, c2006.

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vii, 551 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

"Science and Technology in Medicine offers a window into the past that illustrates ninety-nine significant scientific and technologic discoveries over the last five centuries and how they have impacted the advancement and practice of modern medicine. Each essay includes excerpts from, and a summary of, the original publication; a short biography of the author(s); and a discussion about the significance of the discovery and its subsequent developments. Original material from the likes of Durer, Bernoulli, Doppler, Pasteur, Trendelenburg, Curie and Roentgen offers readers a rare glimpse at publications housed in archives around the world, reproduced and illustrated in one volume."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

Pictorial Work
History
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-545) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Ninety-nine landmark publications -- Timeline and topics at a glance -- The Network of interrelationships.

ISBN

0387278745 (hbk.)

OCLC

68207296
SCSB-9952797

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Harvard Library