Jan Gösta Waldenström and His World : The Life and Work of a Giant in Science, Medicine and Humanity / by Frank Wollheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wollheim, Frank A., author.

Series:

Springer Biographies, 2365-0621

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

Internal medicine.

Nuclear medicine.

History of Medicine.

Internal Medicine.

Nuclear Medicine.

Local Subjects:

History of Medicine.

Internal Medicine.

Nuclear Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

Jan Waldenström (1906-1996) was the leading Swedish internist of the twentieth century. The first chapter of the book presents his remarkable family including five generations of physicians. Born in Stockholm, we follow JW to medical school at Uppsala University during 1924–33. In 1934–5, he spent a year in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer in Munich. In 1937, he defended a landmark thesis on acute intermittent porphyria. As “Docent” (assistant professor) in Uppsala, he discovered two new diseases in 1943. In 1944–5, he spent 7 months in the US commissioned by the Swedish Health Board. This started friendships with leading colleagues and scientists. With time, JW fostered a worldwide network of contacts and became a most influential international star. But this was just the beginning. The book follows Waldenström's remarkable career including his description of chronic active hepatitis as a new disease, his introduction of nuclear medicine in Sweden, his pioneering of the concept of the concept of poly- and monoclonal gammopathies, and many more highly significant achievements. His legacy is emphasized by Waldenström lectures, Waldenström Prizes, and by the International Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation, IWMF, and the Bing Center for Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia at the Dana Farber Institute of Cancer Institute of the Harvard University in Boston. And now, not least, by this comprehensive biography.

Contents:

A remarkable family

Childhood and student years

Letters to a special friend

The red urine story

Assistant professor in Uppsala

A trip to USA in 1944-5

The seminal discovery of two new diseases

Turbulent final years in Uppsala

The “great” medical faculty

Allmänna sjukhuset (Malmö General Hospital)

Professor and chairman in Malmö

Autoimmune hepatitis

The charismatic leader

The carcinoid syndrome

Start of a golden Age

Hypergammaglobulinemia. The Jewel in the Crown

Porphyria

Inga Marie Nilsson - Queen of hemophilia

Carl-Bertil Laurell

The Division of cardiology

Endocrinology

Hematology in Sweden and in the world

The light comes from the east

Visits and visitors

Nobel symposium III

Emeritus professor

New activities in Stockholm

Jan Waldenström, globetrotter- Macroglobulinemia – an update

Happy emeritus years

The final years and the legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Wollheim, Frank Jan Gösta Waldenström and His World

ISBN:

3-031-36739-1