Senses, sensors, and systems
Subtitle: a journey through the history of laboratory diagnosis
Publisher: F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9783907770894
Subjects: Laboratory Diagnosis; History; Medicine; Research; Clinical Laboratory Techniques; Biomedical Technology; Labormedizin
Work titles: Sinne, Sensoren und Systeme. English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-314) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Lothar Thomas; title: Introduction / Sabine Päuser; title: From matula to test strip: the history of urine examination / Johannes Büttner; title: Windows onto the building blocks of tissue: the history of histology / Erika and Gerd Novotny; title: Pisse prophets, polarimetry and patient self-monitoring: the history of diabetes testing / Robert Tattersall and Rainer Proetzsch; title: Arsenic; title: detection of a folk poison : the beginnings of toxicology / Burkhard Ziebolz; title: Old scourges and new: microbe hunters explore a hidden world / Elmer W. Koneman; title: The fungus among us / Elmer W. Koneman; title: Living worms in living flesh: the diagnosis of parasitic diseases / Elmer W. Koneman; title: From hobby to practical science: physicians discover the diagnostic utility of chemistry / Johannes Büttner; title: Motes, protective ferments and hormones: pregnancy testing from antiquity to the present day / Ralf Bröer; title: Blood lines / Erika Keller; title: Cancer signs / Sabine Päuser; title: The medium matters / Rolf Steinmüller; title: Fighting the white death: Robert Koch, tuberculosis and tuberculin / Christoph Gradmann; title: The analysis of biocatalysts: the develpment of clinical enzymology / Naotaka Hamasaki; title: The development of coagulation diagnostics: a detective story / Monika Barthels; title: It's a small world: the history of virological diagnosis / Elmer W. Koneman; title: Immunoassays open up new possibilities in diagnostic testing / Heinz Fiedler; title: The rise of automation / Dieter J. Vonderschmitt [and others]; title: Matters of the heart: the laboratory contribution to cardiodiagnostics / Peter Stiefelhagen and Sabine Päuser; title: The dawning of a new era: PCR revolutionises diagnostics / Hans-Joachim Burkardt and Sabine Päuser; title: What can genetic tests tell us? / Friedrich E. Maly; title: Proteomics targets new disease markers / Michael Tacke; title: Near-patient diagnostics: the laboratory goes to the patient / Wolfgang J. Fiedler; title: Information is our future: enhancing treatment efficacy with individualised health prognoses / Hamid Emminger and Oliver Mast; title: Pharmacogenetics: paving the way to more individualised medicine / Klaus Lindpaintner; title: About the authors.