Black
Physicians in the Jim Crow South
by Thomas J., Jr. Ward
Hardcover from Univ of Arkansas Pr
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by Norman Cantor
Listed under The Plague
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Listed under Forensics
The Nazi War on Cancer
by Robert N. Proctor
Listed under Nazi Medicine
The
Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac
Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)
by Sherwin B. Nuland
Book Description:
A great medical detective story, by the author of the best-selling
How We Die.
Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland is one of
our finest chroniclers of the history of medicine. Obsessed for twenty-five
years with Ignac Semmelweis's strange story, Nuland tells it with the urgency
and insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience.
Ignac Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors
must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century
Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed
fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading
the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately, they also threatened
the medical establishment and so undid the passionate but self-destructive
Semmelweis that he failed to overturn the status quo, leaving it to later
medical giants—Pasteur, Lister, and Koch—to establish
conclusively the germ theory of disease.
The Doctors' Plague is a riveting, revealing narrative of one of the
key turning points in medical history.
Hardcover from W.W. Norton & Company
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Science
Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, A Massive Cover-Up, and the Dark Legacy
of Robert Gallo
by John Crewdson
Science Fictions recounts the most notorious biomedical scandal of
our times: the Robert Gallo affair. It is not, author John Crewdson says,
"about AIDS. Nor is it really about science." Indeed. It is a tale of behavior
most base in circles most rarified.
In 1983 Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute, and a group of scientists
at Paris's Pasteur Institute announced their isolating of separate AIDS
viruses. The stakes--moneyed prizes and patents, not to mention cures--were
stratospheric. By 1985, the Pasteur Institute filed suit claiming that
Gallo--whose discovery was actually a dead end--had appropriated "their"
virus as his own. In 1992, the National Academy of Sciences agreed, accusing
Gallo of "intellectual recklessness" and "essentially immoral" behavior.
This definitive, chilling book is also, unfortunately, a daunting one.
Its sheer size--notes, glossary, and list of characters alone occupy 100
pages--and scientific complexity will defeat all but the most determined
and scientifically informed reader. --H. O'Billovitch - Amazon.com
(Hardcover -- January 31, )
Medicine
and Art
by Marcia L. H. Emery, Alan E. H. Emery
Hardcover from Royal Society of Medicine
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The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine
by Ted J. Kaptchuk
Listed under Chinese Medicine
