Mavericks, Miracles and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age - Hardcover

Fenster, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786712368 ISBN 13: 9780786712366

Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group, 2003

Synopsis

The companion volume to the History Channel miniseries on the evolution of modern medicine profiles the innovators, scientists, and visionaries who changed medical science--including Anton Von Leewenhoek, Wilhelm Roentgen, Nobel laureate Werner Forssmann, Jean-Baptiste Denis, and others.

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Synopsis:

Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine brings to life stories of the pioneering geniuses, eccentrics, and freethinkers who moved beyond the conventions of their day at great personal riskand often with tragic resultsto push forward the boundaries of modern medicine. From Werner Forssmann, who was so confident in his theory that doctors could insert a catheter into humans' hearts for diagnostic purposes that he inserted one into his own heart, while watching on a live X ray (and was basically thrown out of the profession, only to be awarded the Nobel Prize just before his death many years later), to Anton Von Leewenhoek, a draper and part-time janitor who discovered the existence of protozoa, bacteria, sperm, and blood cells; from Wilhelm Roentgen, who developed the X-ray machine in his basement with a single cathode ray and some cardboard, to Jean-Baptiste Denis who gave the first-known blood transfusion (with sheep's blood) and was later charged with murder (on manufactured evidence), Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine is populated with the heretics and visionaries who forever changed medical science.

This fully illustrated publication is the companion volume to The History Channel mini-series of the same name.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786712368
• ISBN 13: 9780786712366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320