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Great medical discoveries : an Oxford story
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HISTORY OF MEDICINE. This short illustrated history chronicles the story of Oxford University's contribution to science, from its medieval origins to its present status as one of the world's leadin...
HISTORY OF MEDICINE. This short illustrated history chronicles the story of Oxford University's contribution to science, from its medieval origins to its present status as one of the world's leading scientific institutions. In charting Oxford's remarkable history, the book showcases twenty discoveries which have shaped medical science across the centuries, with worldwide impact.
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- Creator
- Conrad Keating
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2013
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- 95 pages : illustrations, portraits
- ISBNs
- 9781851240036, 1851240039
- OCLC
- ocn863324581
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Machine generated contents note: Roger Bacon (1214-1292) The Origin of the Scientific Method -- Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) The `English Hippocrates' -- Robert Hooke (1635-1703) Microscopy and the discovery of the cell -- William Harvey (1578-1657) The circulation of the blood -- Richard Lower (1631-1691) Blood, transfusions and respiration -- Thomas Willis (1621-1675) The beginnings of neurology -- The Nuffield Benefaction Laying the foundations of the Oxford Medical School -- Penicillin: A gift to the world -- Dorothy Hodgkin Britain's only female Nobel Prize winner in science -- James Gowans `The Mysterious Lymphocyte' -- John Gurdon The cloning era -- Richard Doll Epidemiological Science -- The Oxford Knee A revolution in joint replacement -- Tropical Medicine Transnational partnerships in the developing world -- Haemophilia Inherited blood diseases -- The Glucose Biosensor Diabetes in the modern world -- ISIS-2 The mega-trial breakthrough
- Contents note continued: Joshua Silver Self-refraction eyeglasses -- The Cochrane Collaboration (1993- ) Meta-analysis of medical research -- Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) The future of drug discovery
Subjects
- Medicine -- History.
- Medicine -- Research -- History.
- Oxford (England) -- History.
- Biomedical Research -- history
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- History of Medicine
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- History, Early Modern 1451-1600
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- History, Modern 1601-
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- England
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