The discovery of insulin / Michael Bliss ; with a new preface. [print]

By:

Bliss, Michael, 1941- [Author]

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text

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unmediated

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volume

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9780226058993

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LOC classification:

QP572.B649.D573 2007

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Contents:

Banting's idea -- The summer of 1921 -- "A mysterious something" -- Triumph -- "Unspeakably wonderful" -- Resurrection -- Who discovered insulin? -- Honoring the prophets -- A continuing epilogue.

Subject: When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to life. In this now-classic study, Michael Bliss unearths a wealth of material, ranging from scientists' unpublished memoirs to the confidential appraisals of insulin by members of the Nobel Committee. He also resolves a longstanding controversy dating to the awarding of the Nobel to F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod for their work on insulin: because each insisted on sharing the credit with an additional associate, medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery. Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail on such subjects as the treatment of diabetes before insulin and the life-and-death struggle to manufacture it.

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A long prelude -- Banting's idea -- The summer of 1921 -- "A mysterious something" -- Triumph -- "Unspeakably wonderful" -- Resurrection -- Who discovered insulin? -- Honoring the prophets -- A continuing epilogue.

When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to life. In this now-classic study, Michael Bliss unearths a wealth of material, ranging from scientists' unpublished memoirs to the confidential appraisals of insulin by members of the Nobel Committee. He also resolves a longstanding controversy dating to the awarding of the Nobel to F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod for their work on insulin: because each insisted on sharing the credit with an additional associate, medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery. Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail on such subjects as the treatment of diabetes before insulin and the life-and-death struggle to manufacture it.

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