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Pioneers of medicine without a Nobel Prize /
This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and ther...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Imperial College Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Archibald E. Garrod: The founding father of biochemical genetics / David J. Galton
- ch. 2. Nikolai Anitschkow: The birth of the lipid hypothesis of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease / Daniel Steinberg
- ch. 3. Willem-Karel Dicke: The role of gluten in coeliac disease / Chris J.J. Mulder and Karel A. Dicke
- ch. 4. Richard Doll: The link between smoking and lung cancer / Tony Seed
- ch. 5. Albert Sabin: The development of an oral poliovirus vaccine / Derek R. Smith and Peter A. Leggat
- ch. 6. Rene Favaloro: Pioneer of coronary artery surgery / Stephen Westaby
- ch. 7. Christiaan Barnard and Norman Shumway: The heart transplant pioneers / Stephen Westaby and David Marais
- ch. 8. William Kouwenhoven and Paul Zoll: The introduction of external cardiac massage, defibrillators and pacemakers / Max Lab
- ch. 9. Inge Edler and Carl Hellmuth Hertz: The development of ultrasound for clinical use / Bhavna Batohi and Paul S. Sidhu
- ch. 10. Cyril Clarke, Ronald Finn, John Gorman, Vincent Freda and William Pollack: The prevention of Rh haemolytic disease of the newborn / David J. Weatherall
- ch. 11. Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen: Recombinant DNA / Anne Soutar
- ch. 12. Harvey Alter and Michael Houghton: The discovery of hepatitis C and the introduction of screening to prevent its transmission in transfused blood / Leonard B. Seeff and Marc G. Ghany
- ch. 13. Willem Kolff and Belding Scribner: The development of renal haemodialysis / John Turney
- ch. 14. James Till and Ernest McCulloch: The discovery of stem cells / Joe Sornberger
- ch. 15 Akira Endo: The discovery of statins /Gilbert Thompson and Hiroshi Mabuchi.