Discovery of Insulin Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Name: Discovery of Insulin Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9780226058993

ISBN-10: 0226058999

ISBN-13: 9780226058993

Edition: 25th 2007

Authors: Michael Bliss

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When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to life. In this now-classic study, Michael Bliss unearths a wealth of material, ranging from scientists' unpublished memoirs to the confidential appraisals of insulin by members of the Nobel Committee. He also resolves a longstanding controversy dating to the awarding of the Nobel to F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod for their work on insulin: because each insisted on sharing the credit with an additional associate, medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery. Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail on such…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 25th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface, 2007


Introduction: What Happened at Toronto?



A Long Prelude



Banting's Idea



The Summer of 1921



"A Mysterious Something"



Triumph



"Unspeakably Wonderful"



Resurrection



Who Discovered Insulin?



Honouring the Prophets



A Continuing Epilogue


Notes


Sources


Index