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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.

This special centenary edition of The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.

Über den Autor

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.

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Chirurgie
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781487529130
ISBN-10: 1487529139
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bliss, Michael
Hersteller: University of Toronto Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 226 x 150 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Bliss
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,57 kg
Artikel-ID: 119925269

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