Pioneers of Medicine Without a Nobel Prize

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Reference, History, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences
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Author: Gilbert Thompson ISBN: 9781783263868
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: February 11, 2014
Imprint: ICP Language: English
Author: Gilbert Thompson
ISBN: 9781783263868
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: February 11, 2014
Imprint: ICP
Language: English

This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby inform and entertain the reader, whether medical student, professor or scientifically-minded layman.

Contents:

  • Archibald E Garrod: The Founding Father of Biochemical Genetics (David J Galton)
  • Nikolai Anitschkow: The Birth of the Lipid Hypothesis of Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease (Daniel Steinberg)
  • Willem-Karel Dicke: The Role of Gluten in Coeliac Disease (Chris J J Mulder and Karel A Dicke)
  • Richard Doll: The Link Between Smoking and Lung Cancer (Tony Seed)
  • Albert Sabin: The Development of an Oral Poliovirus Vaccine (Derek R Smith and Peter A Leggat)
  • RenĂ© Favaloro: Pioneer of Coronary Artery Surgery (Stephen Westaby)
  • Christiaan Barnard and Norman Shumway: The Heart Transplant Pioneers (Stephen Westaby and David Marais)
  • William Kouwenhoven and Paul Zoll: The Introduction of External Cardiac Massage, Defibrillators and Pacemakers (Max Lab)
  • Inge Edler and Carl Hellmuth Hertz: The Development of Ultrasound for Clinical Use (Bhavna Batohi and Paul S Sidhu)
  • Cyril Clarke, Ronald Finn, John Gorman, Vincent Freda and William Pollack: The Prevention of Rh Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (David J Weatherall)
  • Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen: Recombinant DNA (Anne Soutar)
  • Harvey Alter and Michael Houghton: The Discovery of Hepatitis C and the Introduction of Screening to Prevent Its Transmission in Transfused Blood (Leonard B Seeff and Marc G Ghany)
  • Willem Kolff and Belding Scribner: The Development of Renal Haemodialysis (John Turney)
  • James Till and Ernest Mcculloch: The Discovery of Stem Cells (Joe Sornberger)
  • Akira Endo: The Discovery of Statins (Gilbert Thompson and Hiroshi Mabuchi)

Readership: Medical students, professionals and general public.
Key Features:

  • This book is the sequel to Nobel Prizes that Changed Medicine. Many of the authors have personal knowledge of the scientists they write about and all are distinguished authorities in their own field. No other book has brought together the non-Nobel Prize-winning discoveries having the greatest influence upon the practice of Medicine, dating from the first description of inborn errors of metabolism by Garrod in 1908 to the discovery of statins, for which Endo received the Lasker Award in 2008
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This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby inform and entertain the reader, whether medical student, professor or scientifically-minded layman.

Contents:

Readership: Medical students, professionals and general public.
Key Features:

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