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This special centenary edition of
The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface to the Special Centenary Edition
Foreword by Alison Li
Introduction: What Happened at Toronto?
1. A Long Prelude
2. Banting’s Idea
3. The Summer of 1921
4. "A Mysterious Something"
5. Triumph
6. "Unspeakably Wonderful"
7. Resurrection
8. Who Discovered Insulin?
9. Honouring the Prophets
10. A Continuing Epilogue
Notes
Sources
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Michael Bliss was a Canadian historian and a University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and the History of Medicine Program at the University of Toronto. He was the author of numerous award-winning books in business and political history as well as the history of medicine, including popular biographies of Sir Frederick Banting, Sir William Osler, and Harvey Cushing. He was an Officer of the Order of Canada, an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the first historian to be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Alison Li is an historian of science and medicine based in Toronto. She is the author and editor of multiple books, including
J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Research in Canada. Her current project,
Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the
Birth of the Transgender Revolution, will be published by University of North Carolina Press.
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This special centenary edition of The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.
