Animals and medicine : the contribution of animal experiments to the control of disease / / Jack H. Botting ; edited by Regina M. Botting
| Animals and medicine : the contribution of animal experiments to the control of disease / / Jack H. Botting ; edited by Regina M. Botting |
| Autore | Botting Jack H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Open Book Publishers, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 222 pages) : illustrations (some color); digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 619 |
| Soggetto topico |
Animal experimentation - History
Laboratory animals Medicine - Research - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
transplants
animal experiments laboratory animals surgery cancer research history of medicine vaccination Rabies Thalidomide |
| ISBN |
1-78374-120-1
2-8218-7634-3 1-78374-119-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of illustrations --Foreword / Adrian R. Morrison --Introduction / Regina Botting --I. Treatment of infectious diseases --1. Smallpox and After: An Early History of the Treatment and Prevention of Infections --2. Rabies --3. Lockjaw: Prevalent but Preventable --4. Pertussis Vaccine, Unfairly Maligned --At What Cost? --5. Vaccination: The Present and Future --6. The Conquest of Polio and the Contribution of Animal Experiments --7. Diphtheria: Understanding, Treatment and Prevention --II. Development of Life-saving Procedures --8. Development of Dialysis to Treat Loss of Kidney Function --9. The Contribution of Animal Experiments to Kidney Transplantation --10. Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Making Surgery on the Heart Possibe --11. Artificial Heart Valves: From Caged Ball to Bioprosthesis --12. Animals and Blood Transfusion --III. Drugs for Organic Diseases --13. Animal Experiments and the Production of Insulin --14. Animals and Humans: Remarkably Similar --15. Early Animal Experiments in Anaesthesia --16. The Control of Malignant Hypertension --17. Penicillin and Laboratory Animals: The Animal Rights Myth --18. The History of Thalidomide --19. Misleading Research or Misleading Statistics: Animal Experiments and Cancer Research --Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910156256603321 |
Botting Jack H.
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That Savage Gaze : Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination / / Ian M. Helfant
| That Savage Gaze : Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination / / Ian M. Helfant |
| Autore | Helfant Ian M. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Disciplina | 599.773 |
| Collana | Unknown Nineteenth Century |
| Soggetto topico |
Gray wolf - Russia - History - 19th century
Gray wolf - Control - Social aspects - Russia - History - 19th century Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Borzois
Ecocriticism History of medicine Human-animal studies Hunting Rabies Russia Wolves |
| ISBN | 1-61811-866-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Harnessing the Domestic to Confront the Wild: Borzoi Wolf Hunting and Masculine Aggression in War and Peace -- CHAPTER 2. The Rise of Hunting Societies, the Professionalization of Wolf Expertise, and the Legal Sanctioning of Predator Control with Guns and Poison -- CHAPTER 3. Chekhov's "Hydrophobia," Kuzminskaya's "The Rabid Wolf," and the Fear of Bestial Madness on the Eve of Pasteur's Panacea -- CHAPTER 4. Fissures in the Flock: Wolf Hounding, the Humane Society, and the Literary Redemption of a Feared Predator -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793119103321 |
Helfant Ian M.
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| Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2018] | ||
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