Hutchinson Trends in Science [electronic resource] : Medicine and Health Science

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helicon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic books. -- local.

Medicine--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Medicine--History--20th century.

Medicine.

Physicians--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Electronic books. -- local.

Medicine--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Medicine--History--20th century.

Medicine.

Physicians--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Helicon Publishing, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Overview of the development of medicine and health science in the 20th century.

Contents:

"" Hutchinson Trends in Science: Medicine and Health Science""; ""Preface""; "" Table of contents""; "" Overview: medicine in the 20th century""; ""Introduction""; ""Diagnosis""; ""Treatment""; ""Prevention""; ""Politics""; ""Challenges for the future""; "" Chronology""; "" Biographical sketches""; ""Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth (1901-1968)""; ""Alzheimer, Alois (1864-1915)""; ""Apgar, Virginia (1909-1974)""; ""Axelrod, Julius (1912-2004)""; ""Baltimore, David (1938-)""; ""retroviruses""; ""career""; ""Banting, Frederick Grant (1891-1941)""

""Barnard, Christiaan Neethling (1922-2001)""""Barr, Murray Llewellyn (1908-1995)""; ""Bayliss, William Maddock (1860-1924)""; ""Benacerraf, Baruj (1920-)""; ""immune response""; ""life""; ""Best, Charles H(erbert) (1899-1978)""; ""Bodmer, Walter Fred (1936-)""; ""Boyd Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr (1880-1971)""; ""Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903-1995)""; ""Calne, Roy Yorke (1930-)""; ""Cannon, Walter B(radford) (1871-1945)""; ""Carrel, Alexis (1873-1944)""; ""Chain, Ernst Boris (1906-1979)""; ""Charnley, John (1911-1982)""

""Cohen, Stanley (1922-)""""Cushing, Harvey Williams (1869-1939)""; ""Delbreck, Max (1906-1981)""; ""Doll, (William) Richard Shaboe (1912-2005)""; ""Domagk, Gerhard (1895-1964)""; ""Donald, Ian (1910-1987)""; ""Drew, Charles Richard (1904-1950)""; ""Dubos, Rene Jules (1901-1982)""; ""Edwards, Robert Geoffrey (1925-)""; ""Ehrlich, Paul (1854-1915)""; ""Eijkman, Christiaan (1858-1930)""; ""Einthoven, Willem (1860-1927)""; ""Elion, Gertrude Belle (1918-1999)""; ""Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955)""; ""Florey, Howard Walter (1898-1968)""; ""Baron Florey""

""life""""penicillin""; ""other antibiotics""; ""Forssmann, Werner (1904-1979)""; ""Gibbon, John Heysham (1903-1973)""; ""Gillies, Sir Harold Delf (1882-1960)""; ""Hershey, Alfred Day (1908-1997)""; ""Hill, Austin Bradford (1897-1991)""; ""Hopkins, Frederick Gowland (1861-1947)""; ""Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold (1919-2004)""; ""Isaacs, Alick (1921-1967)""; ""Jerne, Niels Kaj (1911-1994)""; ""Kehler, Georges Jean Franz (1946-1995)""; ""Landsteiner, Karl (1868-1943)""; ""Levi-Montalcini, Rita (1909-2000)""; ""Macleod, John James Rickard (1876-1935)""

""Medawar, Peter Brian (1915-1987)""""Menninger, Charles Frederick (1862-1953)""; ""Montagnier, Luc (1932-)""; ""Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri (1866-1936)""; ""Papanicolaou, George Nicholas (1883-1962)""; ""Pincus, Gregory Goodwin (1903-1967)""; ""Prusiner, Stanley Ben (1942-)""; ""Ross, Ronald (1857-1932)""; ""Sabin, Albert Bruce (1906-1993)""; ""life""; ""polio vaccine""; ""Salk, Jonas Edward (1914-1995)""; ""Sanger, Margaret Louise (1883-1966)""; ""born Margaret Higgins""; ""Sherrington, Charles Scott (1857-1952)""; ""Spock, Benjamin (McLane) (1903-1998)""

""Starling, Ernest Henry (1866�1927)""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-75864-3

9786610758647