Past Truth & Present Poetry

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

Introduction

v

Acknowledgements

vii

Author biography

viii

Cardiopulmonary Bypass and John Gibbon

1

(4)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Treatment of Hypertension

5

(4)

Music and Medicine

9

(4)

Cardiac Metabolism: the Beginnings

13

(4)

Molecular Biology: the Beginnings

17

(6)

History of the Society for Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

23

(6)

Isotopes in Cardiology

29

(6)

Gene Therapy in Cardiology

35

(6)

The Neurological Perception of Music

41

(4)

The Dawn of Cardiology

45

(8)

The Fate of Pioneers

53

(4)

Simon Flexner, the Ideal Administrator

57

(4)

Doppler and his Principle

61

(6)

Amateurs in Science, Charles A. Lindbergh

67

(4)

Albrecht Fleckenstein

71

(4)

Heroic Errors in Science and Max Delbruck

75

(4)

Dr. Patterson and his Missing Gene

79

(4)

Vital Decisions - Committee or Individuals?

83

(2)

Science as Business

85

(6)

From Molecular Biology to the Bedside

91

(4)

An Odyssey in Science and Medicine

95

(6)

The Nobel Prize and its History

101

(4)

The Endless River

105

(4)

Paul Ehrlich and his Magic Bullets

109

(4)

Science in the Public Domain

113

(4)

Hans Spemann and Stem Cell Research

117

(4)

Kohler, Milstein, and Monoclonal Antibodies

121

(4)

From the Bench to Television: the Development of Statins

125

(4)

Epilogue

129

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