Details

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.

Medical innovations.

Medicine -- Biography.

History, Modern 1601- -- Biography.

Added Author

History Channel (Television network)

ISBN

0786712368