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Great Inoculator The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution

Weightman Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780300241440, Yale University Press, August 2020
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk – unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk,...

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Genetics

Gene From Genetics to Postgenomics

Rheinberger Hans-Jorg, Muller-Wille Staffan

ISBN: PB: 9780226510002, ISBN: HB: 9780226276359, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of...

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Great Medical Discoveries An Oxford Story

Keating Conrad

ISBN: PB: 9781851240036, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2013
96 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.

The "miracle drug" penicillin was first given intravenously to a patient in Oxford on 12 February 1941, leading to a transformation in the way that bacterial infection is understood and treated. What was to become one of the greatest stories in biome...

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Technology & Engineering

Genentech The Beginnings of Biotech

Smith Hughes Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226045511, ISBN: HB: 9780226359182, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit,...

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Genetics

Genomes and What to Make of Them

Barnes Barry, Dupre John

ISBN: PB: 9780226054568, ISBN: HB: 9780226172958, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about th...

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Public Health

Genetics, Disability, and Deafness

Vickrey Van Cleve John

ISBN: PB: 9781563685767, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand begins this wide-ranging volume with an essay that extols diversity and warns of the dangers of modifying the human genome. Nora Groce reviews the ways that societies have defined disability and creates an i...

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Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911 The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

Summers William C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300183191, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japa...

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