Research Catalog

Title

Walter B. Cannon : science and society / Elin L. Wolfe, A. Clifford Barger, Saul Benison.

Author

Wolfe, Elin L.

Publication

[Boston, Mass.] : Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine ; Cambridge, Mass. : Dist. by Harvard University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Benison, Saul.
• Barger, A. Clifford, 1917-1996.

Description

x, 644 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

"This volume begun in Walter B. Cannon: The Life and Times traces the middle and late years of one of America's most distinguished crusaders of medical science from his service in World War I until his death at the end of World War II in 1945." "The biography covers Cannon's laboratory and battlefield work on traumatic (wound) shock in England and France in 1917-18. It follows him in his career as head of physiology at Harvard Medical School, where he investigated the function of the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system and oversaw the training of scores of budding medical scientists and clinical investigators. And it provides the details of his increasing involvement (although a self-styled "laboratory hermit") in a myriad of social and political activities that grew to global proportions."--Jacket.

Subject

• Cannon, Walter B. 1871-1945
• Cannon, Walter B. 1871-1945
• Cannon, Walter B. > Lebensabschnitte > 1917-1945
• Cannon, Walter Bradford, 1871-1945
• Harvard Medical School > History > 20th century
• Harvard Medical School
• 1900-1999
• 1900-1950
• Physiologists > United States > Biography
• Medical teaching personnel > United States > Biography
• Physiology
• Sociology
• Teaching
• Physiology
• Science > history
• Sociology
• Teaching
• physiology
• sociology
• teaching
• 44.01 history of medicine
• Medical teaching personnel
• Physiologists
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies (form)
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-618) and index.

Contents

Pt. I World War I -- 1.The Mystery of Shock I: Acidosis -- 2.The Mystery of Shock II: Resuscitation -- 3.A Lifeline of Letters -- Pt. II The 1920s -- 4.Postwar Adjustments, and a New Era at the Medical School -- 5.The Crucible: Stewart & Rogoff Challenge the Emergency Theory -- 6.Antivivisection, Another Field of Battle -- 7.A Spirit of Fellowship: Ties with Pavlov and Yerkes -- 8.Homeostasis and the Sympathico-Adrenal System -- 9.An Alternative Theory of the Emotions -- 10.Friends and Associates of Medical Progress -- 11.One Man's Family -- 12.The Physiology Department: An Extended Family -- Pt. III The 1930s -- 13.Scientific Outreach at Home and Abroad -- 14.Chemical Mediation of Nerve Impulses: I. Searching for the Mysterious X-factor -- 15.No End of Emergencies -- 16.Chemical Mediation of Nerve Impulses: II. Sympathin E and Sympathin I -- 17.Around the World in 1935 -- 18.The Spanish Medical Bureau -- 19.Refugees from War-torn Europe -- 20.The Body Physiologic ... -- 21.... and the Body Politic -- Pt. IV World War II -- 22.A World at War -- 23.The End of a Career -- 24.Medical Aid to China; American-Soviet Friendship -- 25.On the Wings of Time.

ISBN

• 9780674002517
• 0674002512

LCCN

00268199

OCLC

• ocm43644050
• 43644050
• SCSB-1211519

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library