medical scientists

Examines the lives of Barbara McClintock, Maria Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against extraordinary odds, in different fields and under different circumstances.

Presents twelve essays, each illuminating the life and achievements of a scientist or physician who has made an important contribution to the fight against disease since 1950, and includes photographs, chronologies, and references for further reading.

Describes ten monumental medical discoveries, profiles the people responsible for them, and discusses how they affected the field of medicine.

This illustrated narrative spans the history of medicine, from the prehistoric trepanning of skulls to modern microsurgery. It includes a comprehensive timeline as well as informative, detail-rich sections on traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine. The future of medicine, medical research, and treatments are engagingly presented.

Presents an overview of the profession of research scientist, discussing job requirements and career opportunities, and contains anecdotes that demonstrate the values needed to be an ethical research scientist.

Identifies specific scientists and their contributions to some of the major advances in technology that have transformed surgery and medicine since the nineteenth century.

Examines the history of sulfa, discussing the people involved with its discovery, its effects on the pharmaceutical industry and research, and the various ways it has been used.

A biography of the German physician and researcher credited with being the father of modern drug development, who focused on the principle that substances act only when they are linked.

A biography of the German scientist responsible for developing the use of sulfa as an antibiotic in the early twentieth century.