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Louis Harold Gray : A Founding Father of Radiobiology

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Sinclair Wynchank. --Cham: Springer , 2017.

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This book is a scientific biography of Louis Harold ("Hal") Gray, FRS (1905-65), a pioneer in radiobiology: a little known science that is nevertheless extremely important since it constitutes the basis of radiotherapy. Hal Gray's work also played a vital role in ensuring that radiography would be a safe procedure for the hundreds of millions of persons in whom X-ray pictures have been taken. The book offers fascinating insights into both the history of radiobiology and the life of Hal. It cont…

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Author: Wynchank, Sinclair

Responsibility: Sinclair Wynchank

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: 2017

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 137 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Series Title: Springer biographies

ISBN: 9783319433974; 9783319433967 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Radiobiology; Radiotherapy

PersonalSubject: Gray, Louis Harold, 1905-1965

Other Subjects: England

Abstract: This book is a scientific biography of Louis Harold ("Hal") Gray, FRS (1905-65), a pioneer in radiobiology: a little known science that is nevertheless extremely important since it constitutes the basis of radiotherapy. Hal Gray's work also played a vital role in ensuring that radiography would be a safe procedure for the hundreds of millions of persons in whom X-ray pictures have been taken. The book offers fascinating insights into both the history of radiobiology and the life of Hal. It contains much unique biographical material made available to the author over the past 35 years by Hal's contemporaries, many of whom have since died. Great influences on Hal's life and studies, including his unusual high school, Christ's Hospital, and his firm moral beliefs, are described. But his life was not merely a gentle, cloistered existence in academia. Its ups and downs included events that would not have been out of place in a Hollywood drama. The work, the first book-length biography of Hal, is intended for all who enjoy this genre (including those without a scientific background) or have an interest in the history of radiobiology and radiotherapy.

Contents: Beginnings -- Christ's Hospital and Hal's early schooldays -- Moving up the School -- Science at Housey -- A Cambridge undergraduate -- Nuclear Physics and Professor Rutherford -- Hal, a postgraduate member of Trinity College -- Social life and marriage -- Travel -- The Mount Vernon Hospital -- At the RRU and Hal's forced resignation -- Hal, Director of his own Laboratory -- The Stroke -- Hal's passing. .

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Publication Type: Biography

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Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century : In and Beyond the Asylum

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Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby, editors. --Cham: Palgrave Macmillan , c2020.

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This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experie…

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Other Authors: Taylor, Steven J.; Brumby, Alice

Responsibility: Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby, editors

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Date of Publication: c2020

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 274 p.) : 5 illus., 4 illus. in color

Series Title: Mental health in historical perspective

ISBN: 9783030272753; 9783030272746 (Print ed.); 9783030272760 (Print ed.); 9783030272777 (Print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Mental Health Services - history; Psychiatry - history

Subjects (LCSH): Social history; History, Modern; Medicine—History; Psychiatry

Specialty: Health Services Administration; History of Medicine; Psychiatry

Abstract: This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture. The book adopts an international scope covering the historical experiences of Britain, Ireland, and North America. In accordance with this broad approach, contributions to the volume span academic fields such as history, arts, literary studies, sociology, and psychology, mirroring the diversity of the subject matter. This book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Contents: 1. Introduction to Healthy Minds: Mental Health Practice and Perception in the Twentieth Century -- 2. ‘The Holy War against Alcohol’: Alcoholism, Medicine and Psychiatry in Ireland, c. 1890-1921 -- 3. Social Stigma, Stress, and Enforced Transition in Specialist Epilepsy Services 1905-1965 -- 4. Planning for the Future: Special Education and the Creation of ‘Healthy Minds’ -- 5. Healthy Minds and Intellectual Disability -- 6. Sheltered Employment and Mental Health in Britain: Remploy c.1945-81 -- 7. Autism in the 20th Century: An Evolution of a Controversial Condition -- 8. Challenging Psychiatric Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity the Neurodiversity Movement-- 9. The National Schizophrenia Fellowship: Charity, Caregiving and Strategies of Coping, 1960-1980 -- 10. ‘(Un)healthy Minds’ and Visual and Tactile Arts, c.1900-1950 -- 11. The Myth of Dream-Hacking and Inner Space in Science Fiction, 1948–2010.

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Schizophrenia Is a Misdiagnosis : Implications for the DSM-5 and the ICD-11

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C. Raymond Lake. --New York, NY: Springer , c2012.

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Schizophrenia: the lay public knows a general picture formed from popular culture, familiar legend, and, often, family history. The professional community knows a clinical profile gleaned from decades of scientific theory and findings. But recently a growing body of literature has begun to suggest not only that the diagnosis of schizophrenia is misleading, but that the concept of the disease itself is outmoded. Schizophrenia is a Misdiagnosis makes a persuasive, well-documented argument for the…

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Author: Lake, C. Raymond

Responsibility: C. Raymond Lake

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2012

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 425 p. : 22 ill., 2 ill. in color)

ISBN: 9781461418702

Subjects (MeSH): Bipolar Disorder - diagnosis; Diagnostic Errors - history; Schizophrenia - diagnosis; Psychiatry - history

Subjects (LCSH): Psychiatry; Social work; Psychology, clinical; History of medicine

Abstract: Schizophrenia: the lay public knows a general picture formed from popular culture, familiar legend, and, often, family history. The professional community knows a clinical profile gleaned from decades of scientific theory and findings. But recently a growing body of literature has begun to suggest not only that the diagnosis of schizophrenia is misleading, but that the concept of the disease itself is outmoded. Schizophrenia is a Misdiagnosis makes a persuasive, well-documented argument for the constellation of symptoms commonly known as schizophrenia as a psychotic form of bipolar disorder. The book documents the long history of both disease entities, from the pioneering work of Kraepelin and Bleuler to the rise of drug treatments in the 1950s to today's brain imaging and genetic studies. Long-standing questions regarding key diagnostic symptoms are examined in depth. And the author details the negative sequelae of misdiagnosis from social stigma to inappropriate and even dangerous treatment necessitating wide-scale revision. Among the areas covered: The scientific basis for establishing validity of diseases and their diagnoses; The overlap of symptoms and course between schizophrenia and mood disorders, from DSM-I to DSM-V; Medical and other psychiatric conditions often misdiagnosed as schizophrenia; The impact of misdiagnosis on patients and their caregivers; Why the concept of schizophrenia continues to survive; Proposed changes within and outside psychiatry. A book with the potential to inspire critical change, Schizophrenia is a Misdiagnosis is necessary reading for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, primary care physicians, family practitioners, and neurologists.

Contents: 1. Overview -- 2. The Basic Data -- 3. A History of the Diagnoses of Psychotic Patients Before 1950 -- 4. Psychiatric Disease and Diagnoses: The Scientific Basis for Establishing Validity -- 5. Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) Established the Kraepelinian Dichotomy and Schizophrenia But Then Reneged -- 6. Eugene Bleuler (1857-1939) Named and Dedicated Himself to Schizophrenia -- 7. Jacob Kasanin (1897-1946) and Schizoaffective Disorder -- 8. Kurt Schneider (1887-1967): First- and Second-Rank Symptoms, Not Pathognomonic of Schizophrenia, Explained by Psychotic Mood Disorders -- 9. Concepts of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders in the 1950's and 1960's -- 10. Changing Concepts in the 1970's and 1980's; The Overlap of Symptoms and Course Between Schizophrenia and Psychotic Mood Disorders -- 11. Changing Concepts in the 1990's, 2000's and 2010's: More Overlap and Similarities -- 12. The Subtypes and The Positive and Negative Diagnostic Symptoms of Schizophrenia Are Explained by Psychotic Mood Disorders -- 13. Psychotic Mood Disorders are Disorders of Thought and of Mood -- 14. Medical and Other Psychiatric Conditions Potentially Misdiagnosed as Schizophrenia -- 15. The Negative Impact of the Misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia upon Patients, Their Families, and Their Caretakers -- 16. How Has Schizophrenia Survived? -- 17. What to Do if You, a Family Member, or Friend Is Diagnosed with Schizophrenia or Suffers with Psychotic Symptoms -- 18. Vision for the Future: Conclusions and Solutions.

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Festschrift, The Institute of Nuclear Medicine, 50 Years

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University College NHS Foundation Trust, University College London. --Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer , c2012.

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The Institute of Nuclear Medicine, founded in 1961, celebrates with this Festschrift, its Golden Jubilee. It has been a remarkable 50 years of progress of the radionuclide tracer methodology. From initial, physiology based experimentation, a full independent medical discipline evolved, and with it, a comprehensive clinical service. Diagnosis and Treatment with radiotracers have established the basis for Nuclear Medicine. Technological advances have permeated the field like none other, its multi…

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Corporate Author: University College NHS Foundation Trust; University College London

Place of Publication: Berlin, Heidelberg

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2012

Physical Description: 1 online resource (approx. 280 p. : 60 ill., 20 ill. in color)

ISBN: 9783642251238

Subjects (MeSH): Academies and Institutes - history; Radiopharmaceuticals - history; Nuclear Medicine - history

Subjects (LCSH): Radiology, Medical; Nuclear medicine

Other Subjects: University College, London. Institute of Nuclear Medicine

Other Subjects: England

Abstract: The Institute of Nuclear Medicine, founded in 1961, celebrates with this Festschrift, its Golden Jubilee. It has been a remarkable 50 years of progress of the radionuclide tracer methodology. From initial, physiology based experimentation, a full independent medical discipline evolved, and with it, a comprehensive clinical service. Diagnosis and Treatment with radiotracers have established the basis for Nuclear Medicine. Technological advances have permeated the field like none other, its multidisciplinary character and its translational research are embedded in the history of the Institute and its success. Recent and latest advances in the field promise a future as bright as has been witnessed and documented in the last 50 years.