1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464874403321

Autore

Perry Philip <1720-1774.>

Titolo

Philip Perry's sketch of the ancient British history [[electronic resource] ] : a critical edition / / edited by Anunciación Carrera and María José Carrera ; with Carlos Herrero, Pilar Garcés (general editors) and Berta Cano, Elena González-Cascos, Ana Sáez (research editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

ISBN

1-282-41336-8

9786612413360

1-4438-0470-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarreraAnunciación

CarreraMaría José

Herrero BerveraCarlos

GarcésPilar

CanoBerta

González-CascosElena

SáezAna

Disciplina

274.101

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Great Britain Church history To 449 Early works to 1800

Great Britain Church history 449-1066 Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS EDITION; SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH HISTORY; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; NOTES; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a thorough edition of a so-far unpublished manuscript preserved at St Alban's English College in Valladolid, Spain. Written by Philip M. Perry, who was rector of this Catholic seminary from 1768 until his death in 1774, the Sketch of the Ancient British History provides a historical account stretching from the arrival of the



Romans in Britain up to and including St Columba's Christianizing mission in the sixth century and possesses an intrinsic value insofar as it is genuin...

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797038903321

Autore

Jacobs Charlotte

Titolo

Jonas Salk : a life / / Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-19-933443-9

0-19-933442-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (572 p.)

Classificazione

MED022000SCI034000MED039000

Disciplina

579.2092

B

Soggetti

Virologists - United States

Poliomyelitis - United States - History

Poliomyelitis - Vaccination - United States - History

Poliomyelitis vaccine - History

Influenza vaccines - History

AIDS vaccines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Jonas Salk: A Life; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Prologue: Two Plagues; Chapter 1: Born to Serve; Chapter 2: Finding His Place; Chapter 3: A Wedding and a War; Chapter 4: Joining the Fight Against Influenza; Chapter 5: Vaccine Neophyte; Chapter 6: Pittsburgh's Virgin Territory; Chapter 7: Polio; Chapter 8: The Chosen; Chapter 9: Ready to Run; Chapter 10: Research Sub Rosa; Chapter 11: Out of His Hands; Chapter 12: The World's Largest Clinical Trial; Chapter 13: Relief from Fear; Chapter 14: The Cutter Affair; Chapter 15: Fame and Its Consequences; Chapter 16: Act II

Chapter 17: Two Cultures Under One RoofChapter 18: The Price of a Masterpiece; Chapter 19: Seeking Shangri-La; Chapter 20: A Troubled



Marriage; Chapter 21: Harnessing the Immune System; Chapter 22: A Most Unusual Arrangement; Chapter 23: Salk Unfolding; Chapter 24: Fall from Grace; Chapter 25: Final fling; Chapter 26: Marginalized; Chapter 27: The Swine Flu Snafu; Chapter 28: Return to the Polio Vaccine Controversy; Chapter 29: A Trojan Horse; Chapter 30: Disciples, Sycophants, and Lovers; Chapter 31: AIDS: Salk's Next Mountain; chapter 32: Unbowed; Acknowledgments; Notes; Abbreviations

PrologueChapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; Chapter 31; Chapter 32; Bibliography; Manuscript Collections; Books and Journal Articles; Author's Interviews; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people. And yet the one group whose adulation he craved--the scientific community--remained ominously silent. "The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success," Salk later said. "I knew right away that I was through-cast out." In the first complete biography of Jonas Salk, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs unravels Salk's story to reveal an unconventional scientist and a misunderstood and vulnerable man. Despite his incredible success in developing the polio vaccine, Salk was ostracized by his fellow scientists, who accused him of failing to give proper credit to other researchers and scorned his taste for media attention. Even before success catapulted him into the limelight, Salk was an inscrutable man disliked by many of his peers. Driven by an intense desire to aid mankind, he was initially oblivious and eventually resigned to the personal cost--as well as the costs suffered by his family and friends. And yet Salk remained, in the eyes of the public, an adored hero. Based on hundreds of personal interviews and unprecedented access to Salk's sealed archives, Jacobs' biography offers the most complete picture of this complicated figure. Salk's story has never been fully told; until now, his role in preventing polio has overshadowed his part in co-developing the first influenza vaccine, his effort to meld the sciences and humanities in the magnificent Salk Institute, and his pioneering work on AIDS. A vivid and intimate portrait, this will become the standard work on the remarkable life of Jonas Salk"--