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Book SynopsisThis is a book comprising 28 small chapters focusing on medical scientists and their discoveries. The title states past truth because these are truly historical and memorable events to be noted by anyone with an interest in medicine, but also present poetry which looks at how these discoveries have impacted on us through the times. The chapters are wide-ranging, but many are from the field of cardiology. Examples of these scientists include Hans Spemann who contributed to the work on stem cells; John Gibbon and cardiopulmonary bypass; Christian Doppler and his theory; Albrecht Fleckenstein and advances in cardiac therapy; Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize. This book will be of interest to anyone in medicine who has an interest in the history of outstanding medical discoveries and the individuals behind them.
Table of ContentsCardiopulmonary Bypass and John Gibbon; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Treatment of Hypertension; Music and Medicine; Cardiac Metabolism: the Beginnings; Molecular Biology: the Beginnings; History of the Society for Molecular and Cellular Cardiology; Isotopes in Cardiology; Gene Therapy in Cardiology; The Neurological Perception of Music; The Dawn of Cardiology; The Fate of Pioneers; Simon Flexner, the Ideal Administrator; Doppler and his Principle; Amateurs in Science, Charles A, Lindbergh; Albrecht Fleckenstein; Heroic Errors in Science and Max Delbruck; Dr Patterson and His Missing Gene; Vital Decisions -- Committee or Individuals?; Science as Business; From Molecular Biology to the Bedside; An Odyssey in Science and Medicine; The Nobel Prize and its History; The Endless River; Paul Ehrlich and his Magic Bullets; Science in the Public Domain; Hans Spemann and Stem Cell Research; Kohler, Milstein and Monoclonal Antibodies; From the Bench to Television: the Development of Statins; Epilogue.
