Explores how developments in science, medicine, and technology have created new lives and saved others, discussing animal cloning, eugenics, gene therapy, reproductive research, surrogacy, and other related topics.
This volume examines some of the scientific and technological breakthroughs that have revolutionized medicine. Find out about the groundbreaking discoveries that have saved billions of lives: antisepsis, vaccination, and antibiotics, to name a few.
Explains how some of today's medical tools were invented, discussing who performed the first vaccinations, why animals were used in early blood transfusions, how electron microscopes work, and other related topics.
Describes different medical technologies used in the ancient world for plastic surgery, bonesetting, and eye surgery. Includes information on medical textbooks written in ancient times and herbal remedies discovered by early medical specialists.
Chronicles the history of medicine from Stone Age surgeries to health care in outer space, describing the practices of the ancient East, ancient Greece and Rome, and medieval Europe and the scientific breakthroughs that led to modern medicine.
Examines six medical discoveries and inventions that have changed the ways in which people live and how diseases are treated including handwashing and antiseptics, vaccines and antibiotics, anesthetics, X-rays, and artificial limbs.
Readers discover surveys of the lives of many of those who are persevered in their pioneering quest for new and improved ways to treat a variety of ailments and conditions.
Explores how developments in science, medicine, and technology have improved the lives of patients, covering mechanical ventilation, organ transplantation, new diagnostic technologies, advanced chemotherapy, and tube feeding.
Explores the history of Western medicine through the lives and accomplishments of thirty notable practitioners and researchers, from Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, to the scientists responsible for decoding the human genome.
