Pioneers Of Medicine Without A Nobel Prize

by Gilbert R Thompson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783263837
Publisher:	Imperial College Press
Publication date:	04/07/2014
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of 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); René 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); 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).