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Mavericks, miracles, and medicine : the pioneers who risked their lives to bring medicine into the modern age / Julie M. Fenster.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003.Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf edDescription: xv, 304 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0786712368
  • 9780786712366
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • R134.5 .F46 2003
NLM classification:
  • 2003 M-325
  • WZ 112
Contents:
The art of medicine : Andreas Vesalius, observation and anatomy -- A peculiar light : Wilhelm Roentgen, the first x-ray -- Picture of youth : Werner Forssmann, the cardiac catheter -- Never say die : Ian Wilmut and Dolly, cloning a mammal -- Perfect focus : Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the microscopic world -- Too much trouble : Ignaz Semmelweis, hospital cleanliness -- Public enemy : Robert Koch, the tuberculosis bacillus -- Trailing death : George A. Soper and Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary" -- Worldly wise : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, smallpox innoculation -- Tag ook : Paul Ehrlich, Salvarsan for syphilis -- Et al : Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz, a drug for TB -- Battery operated : Arne and Else-Marie Larsson, the cardiac pacemaker -- Organized brain : Thomas Willis, depicting cranial anatomy -- Lost in thought : Franz Joseph Gall, phrenology -- Ether frolic : Horace Wells, William T.G. Morton, and Charles Jackson, surgical anesthetic -- Human feeling : David Ferrier and Frances Power Cobbe, brain localization and the animal-rights debate -- Transfusion of murder : Jean-Baptiste Denis, experiments in blood transfusion -- Master of the system : William Harvey, blood circulation -- Long way to bypass : John H. Gibbon Jr., the heart-lung machine -- A bit of life : Joseph E. Murray and John P. Merrill, kidney transplantation.
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"The companion to The History Channel series Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-298) and index.

The art of medicine : Andreas Vesalius, observation and anatomy -- A peculiar light : Wilhelm Roentgen, the first x-ray -- Picture of youth : Werner Forssmann, the cardiac catheter -- Never say die : Ian Wilmut and Dolly, cloning a mammal -- Perfect focus : Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the microscopic world -- Too much trouble : Ignaz Semmelweis, hospital cleanliness -- Public enemy : Robert Koch, the tuberculosis bacillus -- Trailing death : George A. Soper and Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary" -- Worldly wise : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, smallpox innoculation -- Tag ook : Paul Ehrlich, Salvarsan for syphilis -- Et al : Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz, a drug for TB -- Battery operated : Arne and Else-Marie Larsson, the cardiac pacemaker -- Organized brain : Thomas Willis, depicting cranial anatomy -- Lost in thought : Franz Joseph Gall, phrenology -- Ether frolic : Horace Wells, William T.G. Morton, and Charles Jackson, surgical anesthetic -- Human feeling : David Ferrier and Frances Power Cobbe, brain localization and the animal-rights debate -- Transfusion of murder : Jean-Baptiste Denis, experiments in blood transfusion -- Master of the system : William Harvey, blood circulation -- Long way to bypass : John H. Gibbon Jr., the heart-lung machine -- A bit of life : Joseph E. Murray and John P. Merrill, kidney transplantation.

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