Book ID: CBB000102104

Pioneers of Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis (2000)

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Daniel, Thomas M. (Author)


University of Rochester Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xii + 255 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Examines the challenge posed to medical scientists, Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (pathology), Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (bacteriology), Hermann Michael Biggs (public health), Clemens von Pirquet (immunology), Wade Hampton Frost (epidemiology), and Selman Abraham Waksman (antibiotics).


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Authors & Contributors
Gradmann, Christoph
Bechler, Reinaldo Guilherme
Chastel, Claude
García Ferrandis, Xavier
Jones, Susan D.
Kingston, William
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
Princeton University
Praeger Publishers
World Scientific
Concepts
Tuberculosis
Epidemiology
Public health
Medicine
Discovery in medicine
Bacteriology
People
Koch, Robert
Snow, John
Behring, Emil von
Chadwick, Edwin
Crumbine, Samuel Jay
Doll, Richard
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Modern
Places
United States
Spain
Berlin (Germany)
Maryland (U.S.)
Egypt
Europe
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