Great feuds in medicine : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / Hal Hellmann.
Pubblicazione:
New York : J. Wiley, 2001.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 237 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Harvey versus Primrose, Riolan and the anatomists: circulation of the blood 2. Galvani versus Volta: animal electricity 3. Semmelweis versus the Viennese medical establishment: childbed fever 4. Bernard versus chemists, physicians and antivivisectionists: experimental medicine 5. Pasteur versus Liebig, Pouchet and Koch: fermentation, spontaneous generation and germ theory 6. Golgi versus Ramón y Cajal: the nerve network 7. Freud versus Moll, Breuer, Jung and many others: psychoanalysis 8. Sabin versus Salk: the polio vaccine 9. Franklin versus Wilkins: the structure of DNA 10. Gallo versus Montagnier: the AIDS war. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index