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AuthorAdler, Robert E., 1946-TitleMedical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome / Robert E. Adler.PublishedHoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004.FormatBook
Descriptionvii, 232 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

LinkContributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley046/2003014212.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley041/2003014212.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/wiley032/2003014212.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 216-225) and index.
ContentsHippocrates: 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 al-Nafis, Glen’s nemesis -- Fracastoro: the poet of pestilence -- Paracelsus, renaissance rebel -- Andreas Vesalius, driven to dissection -- 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.
ISBN0471401757 (Cloth)SubjectMedicine -- History -- Miscellanea.
Medical innovations -- History -- Miscellanea.
History of Medicine.
Genetics -- Biography.
Genetics -- history.
Microbiology -- Biography.
Microbiology -- history.
Physicians -- Biography.
Physicians -- history.

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