An Interventional Radiology Odyssey : The Story of My Life and Work
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Josef Rösch.
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In this autobiography, Josef Rösch, a leading pioneer in interventional radiology from its inception to the present, documents his life and discusses important aspects of his work, focusing especially on those procedures that he developed or improved and that were popularized by his lectures and publications. In Prague, Dr. Rösch worked on splenoportography and visceral angiography, while in the United States he developed the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) and introduced e…
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- Rösch, Josef
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- Josef Rösch
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- Cham
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- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 104 p. : 69 illus., 35 illus. in color)
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- Springer biographies
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- 9783319338194
- 9783319338187 (print ed.)
- PersonalSubject
- Rösch, J (Josef),1925-2016
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- Dotter Interventional Institute (Portland, Or.)
- Abstract
- In this autobiography, Josef Rösch, a leading pioneer in interventional radiology from its inception to the present, documents his life and discusses important aspects of his work, focusing especially on those procedures that he developed or improved and that were popularized by his lectures and publications. In Prague, Dr. Rösch worked on splenoportography and visceral angiography, while in the United States he developed the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) and introduced embolization for treatment of GI bleeding and expandable metallic stenting of obstructions of major veins and the esophagus. In addition, he contributed to the improvement of coronary angiography and fallopian tube catheterization. The book also describes the author's role as the lead person in establishing the Dotter Interventional Institute in 1990. The Institute was the first freestanding, independent interventional radiology unit to deal with education, research, and patient care. Dr. Rösch's organization of scientific meetings and his early use of techniques for live internet broadcasting are described, and the book concludes by summarizing the multiple honors and awards that he received in recognition of his achievements.
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- 1. Introduction -- 2. My Youth -- 3. Medical Studies -- 4. How I Became a Radiologist -- 5. Research and Scientific Work in Prague 1954–1967 -- 6. Charles Dotter and Me -- 7. Research Fellowship in Portland 1967–1968 -- 8. Los Angeles 1968–1970 -- 9. Back to Portland 1970–1990 -- 10. Dotter Interventional Institute 1990–2015 -- 11. Conclusion.
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- e-Book
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- Autobiography
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Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme : The Transformation of Geographical Medicine in the US and Beyond
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Conrad Keating.
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Kenneth Warren was a powerful figure in twentieth century medicine whose work transformed public health policy and tropical medicine, and who left a profound legacy in global health thinking. A prolific writer and researcher, Warren was respected for his scientific research, winning awards and accolades, while his later role as activist, agitator, innovator and connoisseur of science brought him international recognition. His career in medicine is remembered for three enduring achievements: Hi…
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- Keating, Conrad
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- Conrad Keating
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- Cham
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- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 150 pages) : illustrations, portraits
- Series Title
- Springer biographies
- ISBN
- 9783319501475
- 9783319501451 (print ed.)
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- 2365-0613
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Geography, Medical
- Neglected Diseases
- PersonalSubject
- Warren, Kenneth S.
- Other Subjects
- Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Program
- Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Biomedical Research Network
- Abstract
- Kenneth Warren was a powerful figure in twentieth century medicine whose work transformed public health policy and tropical medicine, and who left a profound legacy in global health thinking. A prolific writer and researcher, Warren was respected for his scientific research, winning awards and accolades, while his later role as activist, agitator, innovator and connoisseur of science brought him international recognition. His career in medicine is remembered for three enduring achievements: His efforts to introduce modern biomedical science to the study of infectious diseases in the developing world The proselytising energy he brought to the ethical challenge of how to provide the most cost-effective health care to the world's poorest people His tenure as Director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, during which time he inaugurated the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme Told through personal interviews with both Warren's supporters and detractors, the story of Warren's career, inexorably interwoven with the GND programme, is a compelling narrative that has not only enduring implications for current medical research, funding and healthcare across the globe, but also a long-standing legacy for the future ways in which we combat disease in the developing world.
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- Introduction -- The Rise -- The GND Years -- Selective Primary Healthcare -- Boundaries, Frontiers, Disciplines -- The Fall -- Warren in Retrospect.
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Louis Harold Gray : A Founding Father of Radiobiology
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Sinclair Wynchank.
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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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- Wynchank, Sinclair
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- Sinclair Wynchank
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- 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.
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- 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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- e-Book
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- Biography
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Ma Vie en Noir : Fifty Years with Melatonin and the Stone of Madness
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Daniel Pedro Cardinali.
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I wrote this book urged by the overwhelming desire that arises towards the end of life to recapitulate the past. My goal was to summarize my experience of practicing science at the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries in Argentina, a country located far away from the world's leading scientific centers. In the book, I summarize the intricacies of the pineal gland ("the stone of madness") as historical, mystical and medical entity and its entry in contemporary medicine with the description of…
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- Cardinali, Daniel Pedro
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- Daniel Pedro Cardinali
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- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 301 p. : 119 illus., 91 illus. in color)
- Series Title
- Springer Biographies
- ISBN
- 9783319416793
- 9783319416786 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Chronobiology Discipline - history
- Chronobiology Phenomena
- Chronotherapy
- Melatonin - history
- Melatonin - therapeutic use
- Mental Disorders - history
- Pineal Gland - physiology
- Abstract
- I wrote this book urged by the overwhelming desire that arises towards the end of life to recapitulate the past. My goal was to summarize my experience of practicing science at the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries in Argentina, a country located far away from the world's leading scientific centers. In the book, I summarize the intricacies of the pineal gland ("the stone of madness") as historical, mystical and medical entity and its entry in contemporary medicine with the description of melatonin. I also reflect on how being associated with an unexplored subject at the beginning of their scientific career impacts the life of a scientist throughout their entire life. Today we know that in humans pineal melatonin begins is released every day late in the evening, and there is evidence that it is the trigger for the sleep process. But the most exciting aspect of melatonin is that it is a substance that is present in all living creatures, from unicellular organisms to plants and higher mammals, a fact that evinces its importance for life. Further, the neuroprotective action of melatonin promises to be crucial for the control of neurodegenerative diseases we face as a pandemic in this century. The discoverer of melatonin, Aaron Lerner, based its name on melano, the Greek word for black, because of its effect on the pigment cells of the skin. As in "La vie en rose", the immortal Edith Piaf song written in 1946, my lifelong work with melatonin could well be called "Ma vie en noir".
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- 1. Brief History of the Stone of Madness -- 2. The Prescientific Stage of the Pineal Gland -- 3. The Beginnings of the Pineal Scientific Era: From the Late Nineteenth Century to Melatonin’s Discovery -- 4. Sleep/Wake Cycle: History and Facts -- 5. When This Chronicler Enters the Story: The 1960s -- 6. The Stone of Madness as a Neuroendocrine Organ and Model: The 1970s -- 7. Peripheral Innervation of Neuroendocrine-Immune System: The Challenges to Change a Physiological Paradigm -- 8. Melatonin as a Potential Therapeutic Agent: The 1980s -- 9. Melatonin as a Chronobiotic That Opens the “Gates of Sleep”: The 1990s -- 10. Melatonin and the “Diseases of the Soul”: The Stone of Madness Returns -- 11. Twenty-First Century: The 24/7 Society as an Environmental Mutation -- 12. Melatonin as a Medicament for the 24/7 Society: Metabolic Syndrome -- 13. Melatonin as a Medicament for the 24/7 Society: Normal and Pathological Aging -- 14. Melatonin as a Medicament for the 24/7 Society: Cancer -- 15. Melatonin as a Nutraceutical -- Epilogue.
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen : The Birth of Radiology
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Gerd Rosenbusch, Annemarie de Knecht-van Eekelen.
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This book, which will appeal to all with an interest in the history of radiology and physics, casts new light on the life and career of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, showing how his personality was shaped by his youth in the Netherlands and his teachers in Switzerland. Beyond this, it explores the technical developments relevant to the birth of radiology in the late nineteenth century and examines the impact of the discovery of X-rays on a broad range of scientific research. Röntgen (1845-1923) was b…
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- Rosenbusch, Gerd
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- de Knecht-van Eekelen, Annemarie
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- Gerd Rosenbusch, Annemarie de Knecht-van Eekelen
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- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 203 p.) : 71 illus., 31 illus. in color
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- Springer Biographies
- Series Title
- Springer biographies
- ISBN
- 9783319976617
- 9783319976600 (Print ed.)
- 9783319976624 (Print ed.)
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- 2365-0613
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Radiography - history
- PersonalSubject
- Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923
- Specialty
- History of Medicine
- Radiography
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- This book, which will appeal to all with an interest in the history of radiology and physics, casts new light on the life and career of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, showing how his personality was shaped by his youth in the Netherlands and his teachers in Switzerland. Beyond this, it explores the technical developments relevant to the birth of radiology in the late nineteenth century and examines the impact of the discovery of X-rays on a broad range of scientific research. Röntgen (1845-1923) was born in Lennep, Germany, but emigrated with his family to the Netherlands in 1848. As a 17-year-old he moved to Utrecht, entering theTechnical School and living at the home of Dr. Jan Willem Gunning. In this well-educated family he was stimulated to continue his studies at university. In 1868 he received a diploma from the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich and just a year later completed a PhD in physics. He followed his mentor, August Kundt, to the universities of Würzburg (1870) and Strasburg (1872) and married Anna Ludwig in 1872. In 1879 Röntgen gained his first professorship at a German university, in Giessen, followed by a chair in Würzburg in 1888. Here he discovered X-rays in 1895, for which he received the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901. From 1900 until his retirement in 1921 he occupied the chair of physics at the Munich University.
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- 1. Born for Business, Raised for Science (1845-1865) -- 2. A Future in Physics (1865-1875) -- 3. Reliable Lecturer, Conscientious Investigator (1875-1895) -- 4. Enjoying the Company of Friends, Hiking, Hunting, Playing -- 5. A New Kind of Rays -- 6. Living the Life of a Celebrity (1900-1914) -- 7. World War I Changes Everything (1914-1923) -- 8. X-rays – Vista of Another World -- Annex 1. On a New Kind of Rays -- Annex 2. Dissertations and “Habilitation” Publication Supervised by Röntgen -- Annex 3. Publications by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen -- Annex 4. Scientific Forefathers of W.C. Röntgen.
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