Pioneers of Medicine Without a Nobel Prize

This book brings together in one volume 15 discoveries that have had a great impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine during the 20th and early 21st centuries but where the scientists involved have not yet been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its overall aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby entertain the reader, whether medical student or professor.

List of contents

Biochemical Genetics; The Lipid Hypothesis of Atherosclerosis; Role of Gluten in Coeliac Disease; Smoking and Lung Cancer; Oral Poliovaccine; Coronary Angiography and Bypass Grafting; Cardiac Transplantation; External Cardiac Massage; Defibrillators and Pace-Makers; Clinical Ultrasound; Rh Disease Prevention; Gene Cloning; Hepatitis C Screening of Blood; Renal Haemodialysis; Stem-Cells; Statins.

Product details

• Authors: Gilbert Thompson, Gilbert Thompson, Gilbert R Thompson, Gilbert R (Imperial College London Thompson, Gilbert R. Thompson
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2014
• EAN: 9781783263837
• ISBN: 978-1-78326-383-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General