| Edition |
First Carroll and Graf edition. |
| Description |
xv, 304 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"The companion to The History Channel series Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine"--T.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Medicine -- History.
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Medical innovations.
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Medicine -- Biography.
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History, Modern 1601- -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
History Channel (Television network)
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| ISBN |
0786712368 |
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