Pioneers of Medicine Without a Nobel Prize

This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby inform and entertain the reader, whether medical student, professor or scientifically-minded layman.

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
• Assisted by: Gilbert Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2014
• EAN: 9781783263844
• ISBN: 978-1-78326-384-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Imperial College Press; Imperial College Press
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General