Past Truth & Present Poetry

Medical discoveries and the people behind them

By: Professor Richard J. Bing MD

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Paperback | 17 January 2006 | Edition Number 1

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This is a book comprising 28 small chapters focusing on
medical scientists and their discoveries. The title
states past truth because these are truly historical and
memorable events to be noted by anyone with an interest
in medicine, but also present poetry which looks at how
these discoveries have impacted on us through the times.
The chapters are wide-ranging, but many are from the
field of cardiology. Examples of these scientists include
Hans Spemann who contributed to the work on stem cells;
John Gibbon and cardiopulmonary bypass; Christian Doppler
and his theory; Albrecht Fleckenstein and advances in
cardiac therapy; Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize. This
book will be of interest to anyone in medicine who has an
interest in the history of outstanding medical
discoveries and the individuals behind them.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General History of Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Medicine Engineering & Technology Technology in General Inventions & Inventors Miscellaneous Items Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health

Introduction	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Author biography	p. viii
Cardiopulmonary Bypass and John Gibbon	p. 1
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Treatment of Hypertension	p. 5
Music and Medicine	p. 9
Cardiac Metabolism: the Beginnings	p. 13
Molecular Biology: the Beginnings	p. 17
History of the Society for Molecular and Cellular Cardiology	p. 23
Isotopes in Cardiology	p. 29
Gene Therapy in Cardiology	p. 35
The Neurological Perception of Music	p. 41
The Dawn of Cardiology	p. 45
The Fate of Pioneers	p. 53
Simon Flexner, the Ideal Administrator	p. 57
Doppler and his Principle	p. 61
Amateurs in Science, Charles A. Lindbergh	p. 67
Albrecht Fleckenstein	p. 71
Heroic Erros in Science and Max Delbruck	p. 75
Dr. Patterson and his Missing Gene	p. 79
Vital Decisions - Committee or Individuals?	p. 83
Science as Business	p. 85
From Molecular Biology to the Bedside	p. 91
An Odyssey in Science and Medicine	p. 95
The Nobel Prize and its History	p. 101
The Endless River	p. 105
Paul Ehrlich and his Magic Bullets	p. 109
Science in the Public Domain	p. 113
Hans Spemann and Stem Cell Research	p. 117
Kohler, Milstein, and Monoclonal Antibodies	p. 121
From the Bench to Television: the Development of Statins	p. 125
Epilogue	p. 129
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