Download or read book The 100 Most Influential Medical Pioneers of All Time written by Monica Gill and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents biographies of 100 individuals in the medical field responsible for everything from vaccinations to gene therapy. It allows readers to understand how each pioneer built on the work of his or her peers and predecessors and how concepts relate to each other.
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Download or read book The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then the individuals profiled in this volume should be considered the most laudable of all midwives. They each saw a need and met it. Readers will learn more about the lives and methodologies of well-known inventors such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, and become familiar with several more whose creations have sometimes outstripped their personal fame.
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Download or read book The Medical 100 written by John Simmons and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most influential people in medicine are featured in a series of short biographies of the all-time greats--Hippocrates, physiologist Claude Bernard, microbiologist Robert Koch, Louis Pasteur, and Charles Darwin among them.
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Download or read book Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women written by Elizabeth Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.
Download or read book Doctors written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theories and pioneering advances, with portraits of Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Joseph Lister, and other medical pioneers .
Download or read book Pioneers Of Medicine Without A Nobel Prize written by Gilbert R Thompson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby inform and entertain the reader, whether medical student, professor or scientifically-minded layman.
Download or read book Doctors and Discoveries written by John Simmons and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.
