Research Catalog

Title

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus : tales of medicine and the art of discovery / Gerald Weissmann.

Author

Weissmann, Gerald.

Publication

New York : Times Books, ©1987.

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Details

Description

xvii, 270 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Essays discuss Sherlock Holmes, tropical diseases, medical trends, research, the fear of science, inflammation, nouvelle cuisine, and sabbaticals.

Subject

• Medicine > History
• Creative ability in medicine > History
• Medical innovations > History
• History of Medicine > anecdotes
• History of Medicine
• history of medicine
• Creative ability in medicine
• Medical innovations
• Medicine
• Geschichte
• Medizin
• Wissenschaftsentwicklung
• Science and civilization

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 251-259.

Contents

Introduction -- The game's afoot at Bellevue -- They all laughed at Christopher Columbus -- Westward the course of empire -- Springtime for Pernkopf -- Amateurs -- Tests prove it: medicine in vogue -- Fear of science -- The road from Wigan Pier -- Nullius in Verba: Lupus at the Royal Society -- Sociobiological warfare -- Inflammation and its discontents -- Proust in Khaki -- Truffles on the Sherbet: the rise and fall of Nouvelle Cuisine -- Prayer in the Laboratory -- Marat on sabbatical -- The text in content (with Andrew Weissmann) -- Flexner revisited -- The medical school wars -- Genes and freedom -- Voltaire's best-seller -- The Baron of Bellevue -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

• 0812916182
• 9780812916188

LCCN

86014437

OCLC

• ocm13860291
• 13860291
• SCSB-1160796

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library