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New. 0618152768. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--From the author of: "Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists past and Present"--PUBLISHER NOTE-Doctors and Discoveries tells the story of Western medicine through the lives of its most influential figures, chosen for their relevance to contemporary medicine. With eighty-six profiles-from Hippocrates to today's gene hunters-this is the most extensive collection to be published in a single volume in more than fifty years. Famous figures like Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard are profiled alongside lesser-known but intriguing figures such as patent-medicine pioneer Lydia Pinkham and the founder of chiropractic, D. D. Palmer. Founders, modernizers, and heroes are presented in a spirited and engaging style that makes for engrossing reading or browsing. Doctors and Discoveries is the perfect gift for anyone interested in history, science, or just great storytelling. --"For the history of medicine, and much of modern medicine itself, there can be no better introduction than these biographies skillfully woven into our accumulated knowledge. They make for compulsive reading." (Edward O. Wilson, University Professor at Harvard University)-Library Journal--The publisher's claim that this is the "first collective biography of medical history to be published in the last fifty years" might surprise Sherwin B. Nuland, whose Doctors: The Biography of Medicine covers some of the same individuals. Despite the overlap, this is still an excellent introduction to medical history and its most important figures. Its more than 80 chapters profile individuals responsible for many breakthroughs and advances. These range from ancient founders such as Hippocrates and Galen through the anatomist Andreas Vesalius and surgeon John Hunter to present-day HIV researchers Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier. Each chapter is brief and readable, and covers the life and achievements of each person very well. Portraits are included for most. Only a few are women, including nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale and psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. A better choice than patent medicine queen Lydia Pinkham would have been Virginia Apgar, whose newborn scoring system bears her name. Simmons is a science writer and author of The Scientific 100: A Rating of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present. Recommended especially for public libraries. A. J. Wright, Univ. Of Alabama Lib., Birmingham Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. --TABLE OF CONTENTS; * Acknowledgments; * Introduction: A Human Dimension to the History of Medicine; *Pt. I Compass of Western Medicine; * Charles Darwin: Biology and Medicine 3; * Rudolf Virchow: The Scope of Modern Medicine: Cellular and Social 8; * Claude Bernard: Medicine and Modern Experimental Physiology 14; * Louis Pasteur: The Germ Theory of Disease: Microbiology 18; * Robert Koch: Foundations of Bacteriology 24; * Hippocrates: Rational Medicine 29; * Galen: Western Medical Tradition 34; *Pt. II The Principal Transformations; * Andreas Vesalius: The Fabrica and the New Anatomy 41; * William Harvey: Circulation of the Blood 45; * Paracelsus: A New Tradition in Medicine 50; * Giovanni Morgagni: "His Anatomical Majesty" 55; * Xavier Bichat: Doctrine of Tissues 58; * Rene Laennec: The Physician's New Gaze 62; * Johannes Muller: The Rise of German Medicine 67; * Francois Magendie: "A Science in the Making" 71; * Pierre Louis: The Numerical Method 75; * Carl Ludwig: An "Integrated Approach" to Physiology 80; * Jacob Henle: Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, and Pathology 84; * Florence Nightingale: Modern Nursing 88; * Joseph Lister: Antisepsis and Modern Surgery 94; * Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen: The Discovery of X Rays 100; * Theodor Boveri: The Chromosomes 105; * Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Discovering the Neurons 109; * Oswald Avery: The...
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Fair. Item in acceptable condition including possible liquid damage. As well answers may be filled in. May be missing DVDs, CDs, Access code, etc. 100%Money-Back Guarantee! Ship within 24 hours! ! The dust jacket is missing.
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Small 4to. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 459pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A superbly tight and attractive first edition of this thick survey that spans (to cite jacket front panel) "from Hippocrates to the present."
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Like New in Like New jacket. 2002 First Edition, w/full number line. Hardcover w/l.n. dust jacket. As new, mint condition. From The Civil War Book Shop-As close as your computer; as dependable as old Abe.
