Moments of Truth

Four Creators of Modern Medicine

Thomas Dormandy

564 pages, parution le 20/11/2003

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Résumé

In the early eighteenth century admission to hospital was often a death sentence and operations little more than excruciating butchery. Thomas Dormandy recounts in vivid detail the lives of four men who helped to change this and who created modern medicine and surgery.
They are:

Rene Laennec (1781- 1826) a French physician, who invented the stethoscope and virtually created modern physical diagnosis. He worked tirelessly to give his patients not only health but also dignity and hope until he himself succumbed to the greatest killer of his age, tuberculosis.

Ignác Semmelweis (1818- 1865) a brilliant but volatile Hungarian, who discovered why so many young women died in agony following childbirth. He himself died forsaken by all in a mental hospital.

Joseph Lister (1827- 1912) a British surgeon, who recognised the cause of ‘hospital sepsis' and devised a way to combat it. It opened the way to modern surgery. A great Victorian, he was high-minded, hard-working and compassionate but not without human weaknesses.

Walter Reed (1851- 1902) an American army pathologist, who discovered that Yellow Fever, a massive killer, was spread by mosquitoes.

This gripping narrative describes the world in which they lived and their moments of truth.

Introduction
Laennec and the Stethoscope
Semmelweis and Childbed Fever
Lister and Antiseptic Surgery
Reed and the Control of Yellow Fever
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

L'auteur - Thomas Dormandy

is a retired consultant pathologist (MD, DSc, FRCS, FRCPath). He is the author of over 300 scientific papers as well as two books aimed at a general readership, The White Death, a history of tuberculosis (short-listed for the Aventis Prize) and Old Masters, a work of art history.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Thomas Dormandy
Parution	20/11/2003
Nb. de pages	564
Format	14 x 22,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	800g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780470863213
ISBN13	978-0-47-086321-3