Protagonists of Medicine [Paperback]

The study of medical history is interesting in itself and may help to modify the view sometimes expressed that medical students and doctors are lacking in culture of any sort. Moreover, some historical perspective is often advantageous when one is considering the multitude of advances that are now taking place in the theory and practice of medicine.

This book, containing a series of collected papers concerning immunology and pathology and vascular biology and angiogenesis, drives us through scientific milestones in the history of medicine in the course of the past two centuries and highlights the contribution of pioneering scientists whose discoveries have paved the way to many researchers working in the fields of cell biology, developmental biology, immunology, pathology, and oncology.

This book will serve as a resource for scientists, historians of medicine and philosophers of science and medicine.

This book features papers on immunology and pathology and vascular biology and angiogenesis. It highlights scientific milestones in the history of medicine in the course of the past two centuries as well as the contribution of pioneering scientists.1. Immunology and pathology1.1. Foreword1.2. Paul Ehrlich's doctoral thesis: a milestone in the study of mast cells1.3. The contribution of Gianni Bonadonna to the history of chemotherapy1.4. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the clonal selection theory of antibody formation1.5. The contribution of Bruce Glick to the definition of the role played by the bursa of Fabricius in the development of the B cell lineage1.6. Miller's seminal studies on the role of thymus in immunity1.7. The fundamental contribution of Robert A. Good to the discovery of the crucial role of thymus in mammalian immunity1.8. The fundamental contribution of Jan C. Waldenstr?m to the discovery and study of the so-called 'Waldenstr?m macroglobulinemia'2. Vascular biology and angiogenesis2.1. Foreword2.2. Gil£$