The rise and fall of modern medicine
By: James Le Fanu.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Medicine -- History -- 20th century; History of Medicine, 20th Cent
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-413) and index.
Originally published in Great Britain 1999.
Table of contents: title: A lengthy prologue : ten definitive moments. 1941 : penicillin ; 1949 : cortisone ; 1950 : streptomycin, smoking and Sir Austin Bradford Hill ; 1952 : chlorpromazine and the revolution in psychiatry ; 1955 : open-heart surgery, the last frontier ; 1963 : transplanting kidneys ; 1964 : the triumph of prevention, the case of strokes ; 1971 : curing childhood cancer ; 1978 : the first "test-tube" baby ; 1984 : helicobacter, the cause of peptic ulcer; title: pt. 1. The rise; title: pt. 2. The end of the age of optimism; title: pt. 3. The fall; title: pt. 4. The rise and fall : causes and consequences.