Author: John Bankston
Publisher: Bear, Del. : Mitchell Lane
ISBN: 9781584150947
Category : Diabetes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Recounts the life of the Canadian doctor and how his research led to the discovery of insulin and a treatment for diabetes.
Author: Michael Bliss
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487516746
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin was a wonder-drug with ability to bring patients back from the very brink of death, and it was no surprise that in 1923 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to its discoverers, the Canadian research team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod. In this engaging and award-winning account, historian Michael Bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin – a story as much filled with fiery confrontation and intense competition as medical dedication and scientific genius. Originally published in 1982 and updated in 1996, The Discovery of Insulin has won the City of Toronto Book Award, the Jason Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Author: Michael Bliss
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802073860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Frederick Banting was thirty-one when he received the Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of insulin. He was catapulted to instant fame, for which he was neither personally nor professionally prepared. Set up as head of his own research institute by a grateful government, he struggled fruitlessly to duplicate his first triumph. His marriage to a beautiful socialite ended in a scandal that rocked Toronto, and he returned to work and painting to dull his frustration. He died in a mysterious plane crash; a new preface to this edition discusses recent findings about the crash. Michaeal Bliss's highly acclaimed biography explores the life of a scientist who during his lifetime was the most famous of all Canadians, but who in his private life stands revealed as a passionate, troubled man, in many ways the victim of his own fame.
Author: Deborah Kerbel
Publisher: Owlkids
ISBN: 9781771474115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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A graphic novel that tells the true story of the life-saving discovery of insulin
Author: Jan Lindsten
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789810234102
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Author: Thea Cooper
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142996569X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment – starvation – whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases – a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition and fistfights. In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections – all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world. Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others.
Author: Michael Webb
Publisher: Mississauga, Ont. : Copp Clark Pitman
ISBN: 9780773050549
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: Seale Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insulin
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Author: Stephen Eaton Hume
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 145971122X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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When Frederick Banting, a decorated war hero, developed insulin in 1920, he earned the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.
Author: Gaffar Zaman
Publisher:
ISBN: 1789849217
Category : Diseases of the endocrine glands. Clinical endocrinology
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The book presents a qualitative and quantitative approach to understand, manage and enforce the integration of insulin into diabetes mellitus. Utilizing a sound theoretical and practical foundation and illustrating procedural techniques through scientific examples, the book bridges the gap between insulin and diabetes mellitus management. Detailed procedures have been omitted because of the variety of equipment and commercial kits used in today's clinical laboratories.
