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- catalog abstract "Nearly all of the advances introduced against the odds by the people in this book still contribute to healing. Julie M. Fenster's riveting tales of the visionaries who pushed forward the boundaries of modern medicine, often at tremendous peril to themselves, is a rich tapestry of the personal stories which support great science, as well as of the groundbreaking science behind those stories. Whether read as a work which complements and adds to The History Channel series, or on its own merits, Mavericks, Miracles and Medicine is a startling reminder of the randomness of human progress -- and of the obsessed geniuses and eccentrics without whom our lives would be vastly different. - Jacket. "Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine, the companion volume to The History Channel series of the same name, brings to life the stories behind twenty groundbreaking achievements in the field of medical science." "From Typhoid Mary to Dolly, from Andreas Vesalius's sixteenth century studies in anatomy to John Gibbon Jr.'s development of the heart-lung machine over two decades in the twentieth, here are the healers and dreamers who marched resolutely ahead of their time - and altered the face of medicine for all time."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13098481.
- catalog contributor b13098482.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine, the companion volume to The History Channel series of the same name, brings to life the stories behind twenty groundbreaking achievements in the field of medical science." "From Typhoid Mary to Dolly, from Andreas Vesalius's sixteenth century studies in anatomy to John Gibbon Jr.'s development of the heart-lung machine over two decades in the twentieth, here are the healers and dreamers who marched resolutely ahead of their time - and altered the face of medicine for all time."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-298) and index.".
- catalog description "Nearly all of the advances introduced against the odds by the people in this book still contribute to healing. Julie M. Fenster's riveting tales of the visionaries who pushed forward the boundaries of modern medicine, often at tremendous peril to themselves, is a rich tapestry of the personal stories which support great science, as well as of the groundbreaking science behind those stories. Whether read as a work which complements and adds to The History Channel series, or on its own merits, Mavericks, Miracles and Medicine is a startling reminder of the randomness of human progress -- and of the obsessed geniuses and eccentrics without whom our lives would be vastly different. - Jacket.".
- catalog description "The art of medicine : Andreas Vesalius, observation and anatomy -- A peculiar light : Wilhelm Roentgen, the first x-ray -- Picture of youth : Werner Forssmann, the cardiac catheter -- Never say die : Ian Wilmut and Dolly, cloning a mammal -- Perfect focus : Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the microscopic world -- Too much trouble : Ignaz Semmelweis, hospital cleanliness -- Public enemy : Robert Koch, the tuberculosis bacillus -- Trailing death : George A. Soper and Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary" -- Worldly wise : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, smallpox innoculation -- Tag ook : Paul Ehrlich, salvarsan for syphilis -- Et al : Selman Waksman and ALbert Schatz, a drug for TB -- Battery operated : Arne and Else-Marie Larsson, the cardiac pacemaker -- Organized brain : Thomas Willis, depicting cranial anatomy -- Lost in thought : Franz Joseph Gall, phrenology -- Ether frolic : Horace Wells, William T.G. Morton, and Charles Jackson, surgical anesthetic -- Human feeling : David Ferrier and Frances Power Cobbe, brain localization and the animal-rights debate -- Transfusion of murder : Jean-Baptiste Denis, experiments in blood transfusion -- Master of the system : William Harvey, blood circulation -- Long way to bypass : John H. Gibbon Jr., the heart-lung machine -- A bit of life : Joseph E. Murray and John P. Merrill, kidney transplantation.".
- catalog extent "xv, 304 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0786712368".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers,".
- catalog subject "2003 M-325".
- catalog subject "610/.92/2 22".
- catalog subject "History of Medicine Biography.".
- catalog subject "History, Modern 1601- Biography.".
- catalog subject "History, Modern 1601-".
- catalog subject "Medical innovations.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Biography.".
- catalog subject "Medicine History.".
- catalog subject "R134.5 .F46 2003".
- catalog subject "WZ 112 F341m 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "The art of medicine : Andreas Vesalius, observation and anatomy -- A peculiar light : Wilhelm Roentgen, the first x-ray -- Picture of youth : Werner Forssmann, the cardiac catheter -- Never say die : Ian Wilmut and Dolly, cloning a mammal -- Perfect focus : Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the microscopic world -- Too much trouble : Ignaz Semmelweis, hospital cleanliness -- Public enemy : Robert Koch, the tuberculosis bacillus -- Trailing death : George A. Soper and Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary" -- Worldly wise : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, smallpox innoculation -- Tag ook : Paul Ehrlich, salvarsan for syphilis -- Et al : Selman Waksman and ALbert Schatz, a drug for TB -- Battery operated : Arne and Else-Marie Larsson, the cardiac pacemaker -- Organized brain : Thomas Willis, depicting cranial anatomy -- Lost in thought : Franz Joseph Gall, phrenology -- Ether frolic : Horace Wells, William T.G. Morton, and Charles Jackson, surgical anesthetic -- Human feeling : David Ferrier and Frances Power Cobbe, brain localization and the animal-rights debate -- Transfusion of murder : Jean-Baptiste Denis, experiments in blood transfusion -- Master of the system : William Harvey, blood circulation -- Long way to bypass : John H. Gibbon Jr., the heart-lung machine -- A bit of life : Joseph E. Murray and John P. Merrill, kidney transplantation.".
- catalog title "Mavericks, miracles, and medicine : the pioneers who risked their lives to bring medicine into the modern age / Julie M. Fenster.".
- catalog type "Biography".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".