Discovery of Insulin

Name: Discovery of Insulin
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ISBN: 9780226058986

ISBN-10: 0226058980

ISBN-13: 9780226058986

Edition: 1984

Authors: Michael Bliss

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In a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times, award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings to light a bizarre clash of scientific personalities. When F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering and isolating insulin, Banting immediately announced that he was dividing his share of the prize with his young associate, C. H. Best. Macleod divided his share with a fourth member of the team, J. B. Collip. For the next sixty years medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery of insulin. In resolving this controversy, Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.50" wide x 7.25" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.946
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