Great Feuds in Medicine Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

Name: Great Feuds in Medicine Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
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ISBN: 9780471208334

ISBN-10: 0471208337

ISBN-13: 9780471208334

Edition: 2001

Authors: Hal Hellman, Hal Hellman

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In this text, the author tells the entertaining stories of the most heated, important and influential of the disputes between major researchers in the history of medicine.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 2/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.23" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Harvey versus Primrose, Riolan, and the Anatomists: Circulation of the Blood



Galvani versus Volta: Animal Electricity



Semmelweis versus the Viennese Medical Establishment: Childbed Fever



Bernard versus Chemists, Physicians, and Antivivisectionists: Experimental Medicine



Pasteur versus Liebig, Pouchet, and Koch: Fermentation, Spontaneous Generation, and Germ Theory



Golgi versus Ramon y Cajal: The Nerve Network



Freud versus Moll, Breuer, Jung, and Many Others: Psychoanalysis



Sabin versus Salk: The Polio Vaccine



Franklin versus Wilkins: The Structure of DNA



Gallo versus Montagnier: The AIDS War


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index