Multiple sclerosis : the history of a disease / T. Jock Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, T. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiple sclerosis--History.

Multiple sclerosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (594 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Demos Medical Pub., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal! The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic disease of young adults, usually beginning with episodic attacks of neurologic symptoms, then entering a progressive phase some years later. Its onset has an average age of 30, and occurs in about 1 in 500 individuals of European ancestry living primarily in temperate climates. There appears to be a complex interaction between a genetic predisposition...

Contents:

Terminology and disease description

The framing of multiple sclerosis

The palsy without a name: suffering with paraplegia, 1395-1868

The steps toward a discovery : the early medical reports

The building blocks of a discovery

The contribution of J.M. Charcot, 1868

The medical reports after Charcot

Clarifying the pathology : James Dawson

The journal of a disappointed man

Experimentation, meetings, reviews, and symposia, 1920-1960

Searching for a cause of MS

Classifying and measuring MS

The nature of the MS plaque

Investigations

Searching for therapy

Multiple sclerosis and the public: societies, narratives and the media.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-97469-2

9786611974695

1-934559-27-X

OCLC:

476045459