Medical firsts from Hippocrates to the human genome
An exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present Always help, or at least do no harm. Following this simple yet revolutionary idea, Hippocrates laid the foundation for modern medicine over two millennia ago. From the Hippocratic Oath to the human genome, from Pasteur'...
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Hoboken, N.J.
John Wiley & Sons
2004
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Table of Contents:
- Hippocrates: a principle and a method
- Herophilus and Erasistratus: the light that failed
- Marcus Varro: the germ of an idea
- Dioscorides: the herb man of Anazarbus
- Soranus: the birthing doctor
- Galen of Pergamon: combative genius
- The enlightened mind of Abu Bakr al-Razi
- Ibn Bal-nafis, Glen's nemesis
- Fracastoro: the poet of pestilence
- Paracelsus, renaissance rebel
- Andreas Vesalius, driven to dissection
- Ambroise Pare(/), a man for all seasons
- Johann Weyer--a voice of sanity in an insane world
- William Harvey and the movements of the heart
- Edward Jenner, a friend of humanity
- Such stuff as dreams are made on: the discovery of anesthesia
- Antisepsis: awakening from a nightmare
- The quiet Dr. Snow
- Pasteur and the germ theory of disease
- Out of the corner of his eye: Roentgen discovers x-rays
- Sigmund Freud's dynamic unconscious
- Beyond bacteria: Ivanovsky's discovery of viruses
- The prepared mind of Alexander Fleming
- Margaret Sanger and the pill
- Organ transplantation, a legacy of life
- A baby's cry: the birth of in vitro fertilization
- Humanity eradicates a disease--smallpox--for the first time
- Cannibals, kuru and mad cows: a new kind of plague
- Self, non-self and danger: deciphering the immune system
- Discovery can't wait--cracking the human genome
- Into the future.
Doctors the biography of medicine