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Multiple sclerosis : the history of a disease /

Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal! Click here to learn more about the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic disease of young adults, usually beginning wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, T. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Demos, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Terminology and disease description
  • The framing of multiple sclerosis
  • The palsy without a name: suffering with paraplegia, 1395-1868
  • The steps toward a discovery : the early medical reports
  • The building blocks of a discovery
  • The contribution of J.M. Charcot, 1868
  • The medical reports after Charcot
  • Clarifying the pathology : James Dawson
  • The journal of a disappointed man
  • Experimentation, meetings, reviews, and symposia, 1920-1960
  • Searching for a cause of MS
  • Classifying and measuring MS
  • The nature of the MS plaque
  • Investigations
  • Searching for therapy
  • Multiple sclerosis and the public: societies, narratives and the media.