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Author:

Hellman, Hal, 1927-

Title:

Great feuds in medicine : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / Hal Hellman.

Publisher:

Wiley,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xiii, 237 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Medicine--History--Miscellanea.
Vendetta--Case studies.
History, Modern 1601-.
History of Medicine.
Geneeskunde.
Theorieën.
Controversen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-225) and index.

Contents:

Harvey versus Primrose, Riolan, and the Anatomists: circulation of the blood -- Galvani versus Volta: animal electricity -- Semmelweis versus the Viennese medical establishment: childbed fever -- Bernard versus chemists, physicians, and antivivisectionists: experimental medicine -- Pasteur versus Liebig, Pouchet, and Koch: fermentation, spontaneous generation, and germ theory -- Golgi versus Ramón y Cajal: the nerve network -- Freud versus Moll, Breuer, Jung, and many others: psychoanalysis -- Sabin versus Salk: the polio vaccine -- Franklin versus Wilkins: the structure of DNA -- Gallo versus Montagnier: the AIDS war.

ISBN:

9780471347576 (cloth : alk. paper)
0471347574 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

00063349

Locations:

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

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

LVOX826 -- Palmer College of Chiropractic (Davenport)

I6OX771 -- Mercy College Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)