The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Le -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Preface to the Revised Edition Introduction A Lengthy Prologue: Twelve Definitive Moments

1 1941: Penicillin 2 1949: Cortisone 3 1950: Streptomycin, Smoking and Sir Austin Bradford Hill 4 1952: Chlorpromazine and the Revolution in Psychiatry 5 1952: The Copenhagen Polio Epidemic and the Birth of Intensive Care 6 1955: Open-Heart Surgery – The Last Frontier 7 1961: New Hips for Old 8 1963: Transplanting Kidneys 9 1964: The Triumph of Prevention – The Case of Strokes 10 1971: Curing Childhood Cancer 11 1978: The First ‘Test-Tube’ Baby 12 1984: Helicobacter – The Cause of Peptic Ulcer

Part I: The Rise

1 Medicine’s Big Bang 2 Clinical Science: A New Ideology for Medicine 3 A Cornucopia of New Drugs 4 Technology’s Triumphs 5 The Mysteries of Biology

Part II: The End of the Age Of Optimism

1 The Revolution Falters 2 The Dearth of New Drugs 3 Technology’s Failings 4 The Clinical Scientist as an Endangered Species

Part III: The Fall

1 The Brave New World of The New Genetics

(i) The Beginning (ii) Genetic Engineering (iii) The New Eugenics (iv) Gene Therapy (v) The End

2 Seduced by The Social Theory

(i) The Beginning (ii) The Rise and Fall of Heart Disease (iii) Beyond Tobacco: Sir Richard Doll and the ‘Causes’ of Cancer (iv) Environmental Alarums (v) The End

3 The Unsolved Problem: The Mysteries of Biology Revisited

Part IV: The Rise and Fall: Causes and Consequences

1 Learning from the Past 2 Looking to the Future

Epilogue to the Revised Edition

Epilogue Introduction: Ten Years On 1 Doing More 2 The New Genetics Triumphant – or Not 3 Big Pharma Rules 4 The Next Ten Years

Appendix I: Rheumatology Appendix II: The Pharmacological Revolution in Psychiatry References Index