Read The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine Online
Authors: James Le Fanu
multiple sclerosis (MS)
408â9
Murakami, Shingo
412
Murray, Joseph
132
,
133
,
136â40
,
144
,
145
mustard gas
162
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
168
,
170
,
175
,
218
National Health Service, costs
6
,
439
National Institute of Cancer
340
National Institute of Health
218
,
342
natural chemicals
392â3
neurosurgery
252
new chemical entities (NCEs)
278â9
,
281
constraints
347
and disease
347
future
429â30
genetic engineering
324
,
325â32
,
345
genetic testing
336â8
Human Genome Project
312
,
441
,
454â7
,
458â9
,
462
medicine's status
323
missing heritability
459â61
,
491
molecular biology
311â12
see also
genes
;
genetic diseases
Newton, Isaac
323
Nixon, Richard
175
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
500â1
nucleotides (nucleic acids)
313
,
315
,
319
,
322
,
347â8
obstetrics
291â5
Ogilvie, Sir William Heneage
232
olanzapine
472â3
oncology
176â8
open-heart surgery
96â102
,
108â12
,
113â19
,
450â1
operating microscopes
249
,
250â4
ophthalmic surgery
251â2
laparoscopes
181
,
221
,
255
,
260â1
operating microscopes
249
,
250â4
orthopaedics
448
Orwell, George
57â8
Osheroff, Rafael
512
overinvestigation
289
oxygen, ventilation
84
pacemakers
248
Page, Francis
501
Pappworth, Maurice
232
para-amino salicylic acid (PAS)
41
,
49
,
52â3
,
56
Parry, Vince
470
Parsons, Frank
139
Pearson, Karl
44
penicillamine
501
peptic ulcers
203â12
,
217
,
290
,
411
personality, and peptic ulcers
206â7
Pettenkoffer, Max von
204
pharmaceutical industry
465â75
mergers
286â7
prospects
485â6
redefining illness
441
see also
drugs
phenylbutazone
500
physiological functions,
milieu intérieur
358
,
363
,
382
,
397
Pinkel, Donald
160â1
,
171
,
173â4
,
175
,
220
,
384
plastic surgery
252â3
platinum
167â8
Platt, Lord Robert
154
polio
84â90
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
411â12
polypharmacy
474â5
population strategy (âBig Idea'), public health
401
,
402
population-mixing studies
410
Porter, Roy
426â7
Postgraduate Medical School
223
,
231
,
277
,
301
,
305
poverty
355
pregnancy
30
see also
IVF
prescriptions
441
,
465
,
474â5
,
476
see also
public health
preventive screening
see
screening
primary metabolites
265
prions
413
progress, ideology of
430â2
,
434
proguanil
243
promethazine
80â1
prontosil
239
Prozac
475â80
Prusiner, Stanley
413
psychiatric illnesses
2
,
74â83
,
477â8
,
503â11
psychiatry
503â13
psychoanalysis
503
,
504
,
511â13
see also
prevention
publications
473â4
puerperal fever
240
pumps (heart-lung machines)
96â8
,
102
,
108â12
radiation
394
radiation treatment, leukaemia
159
,
173
radioimmunoassay
221
Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT)
58
,
59
,
61
,
70â1
Reeder, Earl
510
Rees, Jonathan
492
regulatory genes
463
replantation, limbs
252
research
439â40
dominant paradigm
491â2
funding
458
Human Genome Project
441
state investment
218
retinitis pigmentosa
349
retrovirus
413
reverse transcriptase
321
,
322
,
328
,
413
rheumatoid arthritis
cause of
411
inflammation
37
rheumatological diseases
425
,
498
rheumatology
497â501
Rhoads, Cornelius âDusty'
164
,
172
Rhone-Poulenc
81
Ridley, Harold
251
rifampicin
56
Rise and Fall (of medicine)
7
,
417â23
,
497
Rollin, Henry
78
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
149
Rose, Molly
186
Rosenberg, Barnett
168
Sabin, Albert
87
Salk, Jonas
87
Sanger, Frederick
322
Santhouse, Alastair
478
Sarett, Lewis
32
Sataba, Richard
450
Savage, Oswald
33â4
Savill, John
312
scarlet fever
240
Schatz, Albert
50â1
chlorpromazine
76â8
,
81
,
282
,
504
,
510
Schou, Mogens
507
Schwartz, Robert
142â3
Schwartz, William
152
science
215â16
,
218â19
,
220
,
263
scientific progressivism
431â2
screening
148
,
333â6
,
345
,
421â2
Seascale
see
Sellafield
secondary metabolites
265â6
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
476
,
508
self-experimentation
204
,
205
,
506
Sellors, Holmes
104
Selye, Hans
32
Semm, Kurt
261
Shackman, Ralph
277
Shaw, Laura
444â5
Sheehan, John C.
22
Sherlock, Sheila
224
,
225
,
231
,
301
Shumway, Norman
119
sickle cell anaemia
333
,
347
,
348
side-effects of drugs
cortisone
33â4