Pioneers of medicine without a Nobel Prize
By: editor, Gilbert Thompson, Imperial College London, UK
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781783263837; 9781783263844
Subjects: Medicine; Research; History; Medical innovations; Medical scientists; Biography; Biomedical Research; Diffusion of Innovation; History, 20th Century
Other titles: Nobel Prize
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Archibald E. Garrod: The founding father of biochemical genetics / David J. Galton; title: ch. 2. Nikolai Anitschkow: The birth of the lipid hypothesis of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease / Daniel Steinberg; title: ch. 3. Willem-Karel Dicke: The role of gluten in coeliac disease / Chris J. J. Mulder and Karel A. Dicke; title: ch. 4. Richard Doll: The link between smoking and lung cancer / Tony Seed; title: ch. 5. Albert Sabin: The development of an oral poliovirus vaccine / Derek R. Smith and Peter A. Leggat; title: ch. 6. Rene Favaloro: Pioneer of coronary artery surgery / Stephen Westaby; title: ch. 7. Christiaan Barnard and Norman Shumway: The heart transplant pioneers / Stephen Westaby and David Marais; title: ch. 8. William Kouwenhoven and Paul Zoll: The introduction of external cardiac massage, defibrillators and pacemakers / Max Lab; title: ch. 9. Inge Edler and Carl Hellmuth Hertz: The development of ultrasound for clinical use / Bhavna Batohi and Paul S. Sidhu; title: 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; title: ch. 11. Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen: Recombinant DNA / Anne Soutar; title: 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; title: ch. 13. Willem Kolff and Belding Scribner: The development of renal haemodialysis / John Turney; title: ch. 14. James Till and Ernest McCulloch: The discovery of stem cells / Joe Sornberger; title: ch. 15 Akira Endo: The discovery of statins /Gilbert Thompson and Hiroshi Mabuchi.