The rise and fall of modern medicine / James Le Fanu.
| Author/creator | Le Fanu, James |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000, ©1999. |
| Description | xxi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A lengthy prologue : ten definitive moments. 1941 : penicillin ; 1949 : cortisone ; 1950 : streptomycin, smoking and Sir Austin Bradford Hill ; 1952 : chlorpromazine and the revolution in psychiatry ; 1955 : open-heart surgery, the last frontier ; 1963 : transplanting kidneys ; 1964 : the triumph of prevention, the case of strokes ; 1971 : curing childhood cancer ; 1978 : the first "test-tube" baby ; 1984 : helicobacter, the cause of peptic ulcer -- pt. 1. The rise -- pt. 2. The end of the age of optimism -- pt. 3. The fall -- pt. 4. The rise and fall : causes and consequences. |
| General note | Originally published in Great Britain 1999. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-413) and index. |
| ISBN | 0786707321 : |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WZ 64 L488R 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |