Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine
Subtitle: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: July 24, 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780786712366
Subjects: Medicine; Medical / Nursing; History Of Medicine; Medical; Biography/Autobiography; Medical innovations; Medical / History; History; Biography; History of Medicine, Modern
First sentence: Books produced up to the mid-1400s were precious items, found in private libraries or universities and accessible only with some sort of permission.
Description: Nearly all of the advances introduced against the odds by the people in this book still contribute to healing. Julie M. Fenster's riveting tales of the visionaries who pushed forward the boundaries of modern medicine, often at tremendous peril to themselves, is a rich tapestry of the personal stories which support great science, as well as of the groundbreaking science behind those stories. Whether read as a work which complements and adds to The History Channel series, or on its own merits, Mavericks, Miracles and Medicine is a startling reminder of the randomness of human progress -- and of the obsessed geniuses and eccentrics without whom our lives would be vastly different. - Jacket.

"Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine, the companion volume to The History Channel series of the same name, brings to life the stories behind twenty groundbreaking achievements in the field of medical science." "From Typhoid Mary to Dolly, from Andreas Vesalius's sixteenth century studies in anatomy to John Gibbon Jr.'s development of the heart-lung machine over two decades in the twentieth, here are the healers and dreamers who marched resolutely ahead of their time - and altered the face of medicine for all time."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Understanding the body.; title: The art of medicine : Andreas Vesalius, observation and anatomy; title: A peculiar light : Wilhelm Roentgen, the first x-ray; title: Picture of youth  : Werner Forssmann, the cardiac catheter; title: Never say die : Ian Wilmut and Dolly, cloning a mammal; title: Germ theory.; title: Perfect focus : Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the microscopic world; title: Too much trouble : Ignaz Semmelweis, hospital cleanliness; title: Public enemy : Robert Koch, the tuberculosis bacillus; title: Trailing death : George A. Soper and Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary"; title: Magic bullets.; title: Worldly wise : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, smallpox innoculation; title: Tag ook : Paul Ehrlich, Salvarsan for syphilis; title: Et al : Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz, a drug for TB; title: Battery operated : Arne and Else-Marie Larsson, the cardiac pacemaker; title: The mind.; title: Organized brain : Thomas Willis, depicting cranial anatomy; title: Lost in thought : Franz Joseph Gall, phrenology; title: Ether frolic : Horace Wells, William T.G. Morton, and Charles Jackson, surgical anesthetic; title: Human feeling : David Ferrier and Frances Power Cobbe, brain localization and the animal-rights debate; title: Toward better surgery.; title: Transfusion of murder : Jean-Baptiste Denis, experiments in blood transfusion; title: Master of the system : William Harvey, blood circulation; title: Long way to bypass : John H. Gibbon Jr., the heart-lung machine; title: A bit of life : Joseph E. Murray and John P. Merrill, kidney transplantation