The rise and fall of modern medicine / James Le Fanu
1999, First Edition. London : Little, Brown. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #345717
ISBN: 0316648361
Physical description; xxi, 490 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-479) and index. Contents; A Lenghty Prologue: Twelve Definitive Moments -- 1. 1941: Penicillin -- 2. 1949: Cortisone -- 3. 1950: Streptomycin, Smoking and Sir Austin Bradford Hill -- 4. 1952: Chlorpromazine and the Revolution in Psychiatry -- 5. 1952: The Copenhagen Polio Epidemic and the Birth of Intensive Care -- 6. 1955: Open-Heart-Surgery -- The Last Frontier -- 7. 1961: New Hips for Old -- 8. 1963: Transplanting Kidneys -- 9. 1964: The Triumph of Prevention -- The Case of Strokes -- 10. 1971: Curing Childhood Cancer -- 11. 1978: The First 'Test-Tube' Baby -- 12. 1984: Helicobacter -- The Cause of Peptic Ulcer -- Part I: The Rise -- 1. Medicine's Big Bang -- 2. Clinical Science -- A new Ideology for Medicine -- 3. A Cornucopia of New Drugs -- 4. Technology's Triumphs -- 5. The Mysteries of Biology -- Part 2: The End of the Age of Optimism -- 1. The Revolution Falters -- 2. The Dearth of New Drugs -- 3. Technology's Failings -- 4. The Clinical Scientist as an Endangered Species -- Part 3: The Fall -- 1. The Brave New World of the New Genetics -- 2. Seduced by the Social Theory -- The Unsolved Problem -- A Phantom Carnage -- The Unsolved Problem -- The Mysteries of Biology Revisited -- Part 4: The Rise and Fall -- Causes and Consequences -- 1. Learning from the Past -- 2. Looking to the Future. Subjects; History of Medicine. History of Medicine 20th century. History of Medicine. History, 20th Century. Medicine History 20th century. Penicillin. Cortisone. Streptomycin. Intensive Care. Open Heart Surgery. Transplantation. Fertilisation in Vitro. Genetic Engineering. History of Medicine, 20th Cent. Medical Humanities. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated.
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