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Author : David Jay Brown
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Interviews with leading antiaging scientist and experts.
Author : Hugh Desaix Riordan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 9780942333077
Author : Julie M. Fenster
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2005-06-18
Category : Medical innovations
ISBN : 9780760772898
Author : James Forrester
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1466862556
At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the x-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart...and lived. On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier, saved his life and the term "cardiac surgeon" born. Dr. Forrester tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs - the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by "The Heart Healers".
Author : G. Wayne Miller
Publisher : Crown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307557243
Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life. This is the story of the surgeon many call the father of open-heart surgery, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, along with colleagues at University Hospital in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers elsewhere, accomplished what many experts considered to be an impossible feat: He opened the heart, repaired fatal defects, and made the miraculous routine. Acclaimed author G. Wayne Miller draws on archival research and exclusive interviews with Lillehei and legendary pioneers such as Michael DeBakey and Christiaan Barnard, taking readers into the lives of these doctors and their patients as they progress toward their landmark achievement. In the tradition of works by Richard Rhodes and Tracy Kidder, King of Hearts tells the story of an important and gripping piece of forgotten science history.
Author : Allen B. Weisse
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical education
ISBN : 9781450259354
ENLIGHTENING AND INSPIRING, Dr. Allen Weisse's fascinating new collection of essays, Notes of a Medical Maverick offers an exploration of the medical profession for readers with a taste for history and a love of language that moves them. WITH HUMOR AND INSIGHT, Dr. Weisse explores the history and practice of the medical profession at large, incorporating anecdotes from his own career and in-depth examinations of medical controversies, education, research, and publication. As a clinician, teacher, researcher, historian, and keen observer of the medical scene for over forty years, Dr. Weisse has cast a wide net to capture both the triumphs and the foibles of his profession and the larger world in which it exists.
Author : David Jay Brown
Publisher :
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780895946010
Conversations with Terence McKenna, Riane Eisler & David Loye, Robert Trivers, Nick Hebert, Ralph Abraham, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Rupert Sheldrake, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, Colin Wilson, Oscar Janiger, John C. Lilly, Nina Graboi, Laura Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Stephen LaBerge.
Author : Andrew Lam
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1637742649
An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discoveries in modern times—plus the cures that will help us live longer and healthier lives in this century . . . and beyond. Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies—the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. And while the story of our triumphs over these afflictions reveals an inspiring tapestry of human achievement, the journey was far from smooth. In The Masters of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Lam distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world’s greatest medical miracles. Discover fascinating true stories of scientists and doctors throughout history, including: Rival surgeons who killed patient after patient in their race to operate on beating hearts—and put us on the path toward the heart transplant A quartet of Canadians whose miraculous discovery of insulin was marred by jealousy and resentment The doctors who discovered penicillin, but were robbed of the credit The feud between two Americans in the quest for the polio vaccine A New York surgeon whose “heretical” idea to cure patients by deliberately infecting them has now inspired our next-best hope to defeat cancer A Hungarian doctor who solved the greatest mystery of maternal deaths in childbirth, only to be ostracized for his discovery The Masters of Medicine is a fascinating chronicle of human courage, audacity, error, and luck. This riveting ode to mankind reveals why the past is prelude to the game-changing breakthroughs of tomorrow.
Author : Diana Palmer
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426833814
For rugged ranchers Mack Killain and Gil Callister, setting pulses aflutter is all in a day's work. But these towering, tenacious men of Medicine Ridge Ranch won't be sweet-talked into marriage. Or will they…? Sparks fly when two beguilingly innocent bachelorettes pull out all the stops to charm their surly cowboys into trading in a life of stubborn solitude for love on the range!
Author : Loree Lough
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1603742905
When a coincidental meeting brings together young widow Levee O'Reilly and rancher Dan Neville, a confirmed bachelor for reasons of his own, they're awakened to a long-ignored desire for love by the realization that they might have finally found it. Can these two mavericks accept the plans God has for their lives?