Pioneers in Medicine : From the Classical World to Today.
Title:
Pioneers in Medicine : From the Classical World to Today.
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Publishing, Britannica Educational.
ISBN:
9781615307418
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (158 pages)
Series:
Inventors and Innovators
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Asclepius -- Chapter 2 Imhotep -- Chapter 3 Hippocrates -- Chapter 4 Pedanius Dioscorides -- Chapter 5 Galen -- Chapter 6 Avicenna -- Chapter 7 Ambroise Paré -- Chapter 8 Andreas Vesalius -- Chapter 9 William Harvey -- Chapter 10 Marcello Malpighi -- Chapter 11 Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek -- Chapter 12 William Cheselden -- Chapter 13 Edward Jenner -- Chapter 14 Ignaz Semmelweis -- Chapter 15 Florence Nightingale -- Chapter 16 Rudolf Virchow -- Chapter 17 Elizabeth Blackwell -- Chapter 18 Louis Pasteur -- Chapter 19 Henri Dunant -- Chapter 20 Robert Koch -- Chapter 21 Alphonse Laveran -- Chapter 22 William Osler -- Chapter 23 Walter Reed -- Chapter 24 Santiago Ramón y Cajal -- Chapter 25 Kitasato Shibasaburo -- Chapter 26 Paul Ehrlich -- Chapter 27 Sigmund Freud -- Chapter 28 Carl Jung -- Chapter 29 Florence Rena Sabin -- Chapter 30 Alexander Fleming -- Chapter 31 Margaret Sanger -- Chapter 32 FredericK Grant Banting -- Chapter 33 Barbara McClintock -- Chapter 34 Charles Richard Drew -- Chapter 35 Albert Sabin -- Chapter 36 Jonas Salk -- Chapter 37 Francis Crick -- Chapter 38 Christiaan Barnard -- Chapter 39 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -- Chapter 40 Oliver Sacks -- Chapter 41 Francis Collins -- Chapter 42 Margaret Chan -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Battling disease, championing new techniques, recommending necessary medications, and offering comfort and guidance to those in need are just some of the many responsibilities with which healers over time have been charged. Even as the field of medical science rapidly evolves, doctors, researchers, and other medical professionals serve as significant reminders of the human element that has sustained the craft of healing for millennia. Readers discover surveys of the lives of many of those who are persevered in their pioneering quest for new and improved ways to treat a variety of ailments and conditions.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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