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Science and technology in medicine : an illustrated account based on ninety-nine landmark publications from five centuries / Andras Gedeon.

Title
  1. Science and technology in medicine : an illustrated account based on ninety-nine landmark publications from five centuries / Andras Gedeon.
Published by
  1. New York ; London : Springer, c2006.
Author
  1. Gedeon, Andras

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Additional authors
  1. Geddes, Leslie A.
  2. Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943-
  3. Norman, Jeremy M.
  4. Hagelin, Ove
  5. Springer (Firm) publisher.
Description
  1. vii, 551 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 29 cm.
Summary
  1. "Science and Technology in Medicine offers a window into the past that illustrates ninety-nine significant scientific and technologic discoveries over the last five centuries and how they have impacted the advancement and practice of modern medicine. Each essay includes excerpts from, and a summary of, the original publication; a short biography of the author(s); and a discussion about the significance of the discovery and its subsequent developments. Original material from the likes of Durer, Bernoulli, Doppler, Pasteur, Trendelenburg, Curie and Roentgen offers readers a rare glimpse at publications housed in archives around the world, reproduced and illustrated in one volume."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Geschichte
  2. History of Medicine
  3. Biomedical Technology > history
  4. Science > history
  5. Medical innovations > History
  6. Medical technology > History
  7. Medicine > History
  8. Science > History
  9. History, Modern 1601-
  10. Science > History > Pictorial Works
  11. Biomedical Technology > History > Pictorial Works
  12. History of Medicine > Pictorial Works
  13. History, Modern 1601- > Pictorial Works
  14. Médecine > Innovations > Histoire
  15. Technologie médicale > Histoire
  16. Sciences > Histoire
  17. Médecine > Histoire
  18. Medical technology
  19. Medicine
  20. Science
  21. Geneeskunde
  22. Natuurwetenschappen
  23. Techniek
  24. Wetenschappelijke publicaties
  25. Medizintechnik
  26. Medizintechnik
Genre/Form
  1. Pictorial Work
  2. History
  3. History.
Contents
  1. Ninety-nine landmark publications -- Timeline and topics at a glance -- The Network of interrelationships.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-545) and indexes.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain