Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mavericks, miracles, and medicine

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

52825127

Responsibility statement

Julie M. Fenster

Sub title

the pioneers who risked their lives to bring medicine into the modern age

Table Of 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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