| Autore |
Moran Michael E.
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| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (464 p.)
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| Disciplina |
464
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| Soggetto topico |
Urology
Primary care (Medicine)
Nephrology
Internal medicine
Endocrinology
Primary Care Medicine
Internal Medicine
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| ISBN |
1-4614-8196-1
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
A History of Histories -- Epistemology and Lithology -- Laboring Under the Stone: A Literary Legacy of Lithiasis -- Paleolithology -- Greco-Roman Stone Disease -- Dark Ages, Dark Therapies -- Renaissance of Urolithiasis -- van Beverwijck-The Bridge from Ancient to Modern -- Enlightened Minds and Stone Disease -- Charlatans, Quacks & Joanna Stephens -- Evolution of Stone Disease -- Founding Fathers of Stone Chemistry -- Famous Stone Sufferers -- Frederik Ruysch’s Fascination With Urolithiasis -- Gray’s Anatomy of Stones: Henry Vandyke Carter -- The Stone Hospital & Stone Treatment -- Liesegang’s Rings -- Lithotomy -- Litholapaxy- Civiale to Bigelow, von Kern controversy (1828) -- Imaging the Beast- Sounding, Lithoscopes and Röntgen Rays -- Rise of “Science” in Stone Disease -- Fictitious Stones and Sir William Osler -- Early Modern Stone Disease -- Epidemiology -- Pathophysiology -- The Rarest Stone of All! -- The Largest Stone of All! -- Lithotripsy: From Rocket Science to the Clinic -- Modern Stone Science -- Equal Rights: Stone Disease and Females -- Urologist’s Guide to the Galaxy -- Towards Keeping the Hippocratic Oath (Six Sigma) -- Epilogue.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300084503321 |