Profiles of three pioneers in the health field: Florence Nightingale, the first nurse to make nursing a branch of the medical profession; Jonas Salk, the physic
This book presents biographies of 100 individuals in the medical field responsible for everything from vaccinations to gene therapy. It allows readers to unders
From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the w
Modern medicine in England as we know it today is chiefly the product of the scientific developments of the nineteenth century. These advances included improved