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Author:

Simmons, John G., 1949-

Title:

Doctors and discoveries : lives that created today's medicine / John Galbraith Simmons.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xx, 459 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Physicians.--biography.
Medical scientists.--Biography.
Medicine--History.
Physicians.--biography.
History of Medicine

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-450) and index.

Contents:

Rise, decline, and persistence of psychoanalysis / Pt. III. Figures of constant reference -- Biology and medicine / Sigmund Freud Scope of modern medicine: cellular and social / Rudolf Virchow -- Medicine and modern experimental physiology / Claude Bernard -- Germ theory of disease: microbiology / Louis Pasteur -- Foundations of bacteriology / Robert Koch -- Rational medicine / Hippocrates -- Western medical tradition / Galen -- Pt. II. Prinicpal transformations -- Fabrica and the new anatomy / Andreas Vesalius -- Circulation of the blood / William Harvey -- New tradition in medicine / Paracelsus -- "His anatomical majesty" / Giovanni Morgagni -- Doctrine of tissues / Xavier Bichat -- Physician's new gaze / René Laennec -- Rise of German medicine / Johannes Müller -- "Science in the making" / François Magendie -- Numerical method / Pierre Louis -- "Integrated approach" to physiology / Carl Ludwig -- Anatomy, histology, physiology, and pathology / Jacob Henle -- Modern nursing / Florence Nightingale -- Antisepsis and modern surgery / Joseph Lister -- Discovery of X rays / Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen -- Chromosomes / Theodor Boveri -- Discovering the neurons / Santiago Ramón y Cajal -- "Transforming principle": DNA / Oswald Avery -- Pt. III. Figures of constant reference -- Rise of surgery / Ambroise Paré -- Occupational diseases and environmental hazards / Bernardino Ramazzini -- Poem about syphilis, a theory of contagion / Girolamo Francastoro -- "English Hippocrates" / Thomas Sydenham -- Medicine in the eighteenth century / Hermann Boerhaave -- Beginnings of scientific medicine and surgery / John Hunter -- Founder of modern dentistry / Pierre Fauchard -- Treating the insane / Philippe Pinel -- Vaccination against smallpox / Edward Jenner -- Demonstration of anesthesia / William Thomas Green Morton -- Field epidemiology begins at the Broad Street pump / John Snow -- Tragic insight into childbed fever / Ignaz Semmelweis -- Surgery comes of age / Theodor Billroth -- Rise, decline, and persistence of psychoanalysis / Sigmund Freud

ISBN:

9780618152766
0618152768

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48649291

LCCN:

2001059353

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

I6OX771 -- Mercy College Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

KEPC896 -- Keosauqua Public Library (Keosauqua)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)