From Anesthesia to X-Rays : Innovations and Discoveries That Changed Medicine Forever

Christiane Fabbri

ISBN 10: 1610695739 / ISBN 13: 9781610695732

Editore: Greenwood, 2016

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Easy to read and to use, this A-to-Z mini-encyclopedia covers the most important medical innovations of the last 200 years.Medical innovation is an extremely important topic-and one to which relatively little study has been devoted. This volume is designed to introduce readers to the history and development of key advances in the science and practice of medicine. It explores issues in medical history and provides perspective on contemporary scientific research and innovation. It also provides a backdrop against which to evaluate current headlines, such as the discoveries of live samples of smallpox virus in an unused storage room at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and incidents of bubonic plague in China and Colorado.Although the entries in this single-volume resource describe how each innovation works, this is not intended as a technical text. Instead, the focus is on the context in which each innovation was developed and on its lasting importance in the field of medicine. Through these fascinating accounts, readers will be able to trace the evolution and legacy of key innovations and to see how other sectors of society-such as industry and the military-have affected and been affected by advances in the field of medicine. Codice articolo 9781610695732

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Easy to read and to use, this A-to-Z mini-encyclopedia covers the most important medical innovations of the last 200 years.

Informazioni sull'autore: Christiane Nockels Fabbri, PhD, a native of Luxembourg, has practiced clinical medicine since 1984, most recently at Yale Health in New Haven, CT.

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Titolo: From Anesthesia to X-Rays : Innovations and ...
Casa editrice: Greenwood
Data di pubblicazione: 2016
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu