Research Catalog

Title

Cures out of chaos : how unexpected discoveries led to breakthroughs in medicine and health / M. Lawrence Podolsky ; foreword by Daniel E. Koshland Jr.

Author

Podolsky, M. Lawrence.

Publication

Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1997.

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Details

Description

xiv, 430 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

This book describes important medical discoveries -- from the introduction of the first antibiotic to the present -- where serendipity, intuition, coincidence or laboratory accident play an important role in bringing these revelations to light. -- Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Medical innovations > History
• Medical innovations > Social aspects
• Medicine > History
• Discoveries in science > History
• Medicine > Research > History
• Diffusion of innovations
• Research
• history of medicine
• research (function)
• Research
• Diffusion of innovations
• Discoveries in science
• Medical innovations
• Medical innovations > Social aspects
• Medicine
• Medicine > Research
• Chaos
• Serendipiteit
• Geneeskunde
• Onderzoek
• Ontdekkingen
• History, 20th Century
• Diffusion of Innovation
• History of Medicine

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Dyes and Destiny -- 2. Lesson from "The Wizard of Oz" -- 3. Elegy for a Planet -- 4. Afflictions of Affluence -- 5. Too Much of a Good Thing -- 6. Foresight, Nearsight and Insight -- 7. Captain of the Men of Death -- 8. Oxford Incidents -- 9. Orphans and Their Relatives -- 10. Janus and the Cancer Connection -- 11. Concept Out of Chaos -- 12. Bing, Bang and Levin and the Horseshoe Crab -- 13. "Mighty Like a Rose" -- 14. Backyard Full of Diamonds.

ISBN

• 9789057025556
• 9057025558
• 9789057025563
• 9057025566

LCCN

99521842

OCLC

• ocm38575904
• 38575904
• SCSB-469781

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library