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Medical Marvels

The 100 Greatest Advances in Medicine

By: Eugene W., M.D. Straus, Alex Straus

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Hardcover | 2 May 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Medical Marvels is an introduction to some of the ideas, people, and accomplishments that have influenced the development of healing. While it examines and celebrates human ingenuity's most hallowed ground, it is not a history per se of medicine - it is equally concerned with our current climate, and it is a call to thought and action.

Meet the people who continue to make a telling difference to the human condition - people like Hippocrates, Galen, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Gregor Mendel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Louis Pasteur, Florence Nightingale, Oswald Theodore Avery, Harold Varmus, and Rosalyn S. Yalow. Discover what drove them and marvel at the brilliance of their contributions.

Encounter great ideas - including the doctor-patient relationship, the germ theory of disease, vaccination, immunology, genetics, preventive medicine, stem cells, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and treatment - and learn about the art, science, and significance of these ideas.

Within the context of discovery and compassion at the heart of every medical advance, Medical Marvels considers the powerful forces controlling both the science and distribution of healthcare. By reading this absorbing and important book, everyone interested in good healthcare will gain a new appreciation for the achievements, the roadblocks that have been overcome and those still looming, as well as the great promise medicine holds for the future.

Healthcare is among the most significant issues of our time, and it will be more so in the future. If you want a powerful and accurate lens to understand the history of medicine as well as the societal and scientific challenges it is facing now and in the future - then Medical Marvels is for you.

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""This book provides a fascinating overview of the history of modern medicine. With figures ranging in time from the beginnings of medicine with Hippocrates, to the cutting edge of modern discoveries, it's an essential addition to the general interest literature on medical history." Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow, Nobel Laureate "At a time when bedrock scientific principles like evolution are being challenged anew, it's refreshing and important to read a book which takes as its goal the celebration of science. Medical Marvels is an immensely engrossing survey which makes clear how dramatically scientific understanding has improved our lives. It's also a textbook example of how to write short, entertaining, and informative capsule biographies. For this alone, it should be required reading in all writing programs." Peter Rothberg, Associate Publisher, The Nation

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History of Science

From abandonment to the idea of healing	p. 21
The doctor-patient relationship	p. 25
The hippocratic corpus	p. 28
The discovery of microscopic life	p. 31
The medical encounter and the history of the present illness	p. 35
Galenic medicine	p. 39
On the fabric of the human body	p. 42
The physical examination	p. 47
To see for oneself at the autopsy	p. 51
On the motion of the heart	p. 55
Diagnostic X-ray examinations	p. 59
Observations and experiments on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion	p. 63
"Nervism" and the integration of the organ systems	p. 65
"Chemical messengers" and the discovery of hormones	p. 69
The germ theory of disease	p. 73
Smallpox vaccination	p. 78
Aspirin	p. 84
The initiation of insulin therapy	p. 86
Florence Nightingale and modern nursing	p. 89
The development of sewage systems	p. 94
Public works and health	p. 99
Paul Ehrlich's "magic bullets"	p. 101
Eradication of smallpox by the World Health Organization	p. 104
Gregor Mendel's discovery of genetics	p. 107
Friedrich Miescher discovers DNA in pus	p. 111
Oswald Theodore Avery uncovers the function of DNA	p. 113
The structure of DNA is elucidated	p. 116
The genetic code	p. 122
Tropical medicine	p. 129
Microscopes	p. 132
The fool of pest	p. 136
Contraception	p. 139
George Seldes leads the fight to deal with tobacco-related illness	p. 144
Penicillin	p. 149
The development of surgical anesthesia	p. 153
Blood transfusion	p. 159
Modern surgical techniques	p. 162
The control of polio	p. 164
Cardiac catheterization and related techniques	p. 168
Cholesterol and the metabolic basis of cardiovascular disease	p. 171
Lab rats tango in the Bronx - the development of radioimmunoassay	p. 177
The discovery of viruses	p. 184
Retroviruses and oncogenes	p. 188
Koch's postulates	p. 191
Victory at C and the concept of vitamins	p. 194
Carbolic acid wound dressing	p. 198
Dentistry	p. 200
The relaxing factor that led to viagra	p. 203
Advanced imaging techniques	p. 206
Immunological tolerance and rejection	p. 209
Solid organ transplantation	p. 212
Kidney transplantation	p. 217
Liver transplantation	p. 220
Heart transplantation	p. 224
Bone marrow transplantation	p. 226
Ancient and early surgery	p. 231
The development of medical subspecialties	p. 236
The development of surgical subspecialties	p. 238
Minimally invasive surgery	p. 239
Birthing care	p. 241
Hospitals	p. 248
Coronary care and other intensive care units	p. 253
Streptomycin and control of tuberculosis	p. 255
Digitalis	p. 257
The pneumococcus from hell and understanding antibiotic resistance	p. 261
The development of antiviral drugs and cures for childhood leukemia	p. 265
Chemotherapy for malignant disease	p. 269
Therapeutic radiation	p. 271
Rita Levi-Montalcini discovers nerve growth factor	p. 275
Hemodialysis	p. 280
Restoration of vision with cataract and retinal surgery	p. 282
Understanding retroviruses and the treatment of AIDS	p. 285
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR)	p. 289
The human genome project	p. 291
Gene therapy	p. 294
The electrocardiogram	p. 296
Mitochondrial function and disease	p. 298
Freud and the realization of the unconscious mind	p. 302
Group and family therapy	p. 309
Twelve-step programs and the treatment of addictive behavior	p. 312
Methadone maintenance treatment	p. 316
Treatment of schizophrenia	p. 318
Treatment of depression	p. 325
Introduction to the study of experimental medicine	p. 334
Tissue culture	p. 339
Understanding alcohol and health	p. 340
Preprofessional healthcare and the development of fee-for-service	p. 346
Socialized medicine	p. 351
Single-payer systems	p. 354
The fight to open medicine to women and minorities	p. 357
Health maintenance organizations	p. 363
Preventive medicine	p. 365
Refuse disposal	p. 368
Recalled to life by physical and occupational therapy	p. 370
The molecular biology of learning and memory	p. 376
Neonatology and gerontology	p. 378
In vitro fertilization and blastocyst selection	p. 381
Stem cells and regenerative medicine	p. 389
Prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trials	p. 394
Patient advocacy	p. 399
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