Urolithiasis A Comprehensive History /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Moran, Michael E. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Endocrinology.; Nephrology.; Primary care (Medicine).; Urology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Primary Care Medicine.; Internal Medicine.

Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History provides a historical sojourn into the varied manifestations of kidney stone disease. Utilizing historical sources and integrating classic material with new concepts, this new volume provides depth and details on stone disease not found in modern overviews on th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• A History of Histories
• Epistemology and Lithology
• Laboring Under the Stone: A Literary Legacy of Lithiasis
• Paleolithology
• Greco-Roman Stone Disease
• Dark Ages, Dark Therapies
• Renaissance of Urolithiasis
• van Beverwijck-The Bridge from Ancient to Modern
• Enlightened Minds and Stone Disease
• Charlatans, Quacks & Joanna Stephens
• Evolution of Stone Disease
• Founding Fathers of Stone Chemistry
• Famous Stone Sufferers
• Frederik Ruysch’s Fascination With Urolithiasis
• Gray’s Anatomy of Stones: Henry Vandyke Carter
• The Stone Hospital & Stone Treatment
• Liesegang’s Rings
• Lithotomy
• Litholapaxy- Civiale to Bigelow, von Kern controversy (1828)
• Imaging the Beast- Sounding, Lithoscopes and Röntgen Rays
• Rise of “Science” in Stone Disease
• Fictitious Stones and Sir William Osler
• Early Modern Stone Disease
• Epidemiology
• Pathophysiology
• The Rarest Stone of All!
• The Largest Stone of All!
• Lithotripsy: From Rocket Science to the Clinic
• Modern Stone Science
• Equal Rights: Stone Disease and Females
• Urologist’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Towards Keeping the Hippocratic Oath (Six Sigma)
• Epilogue.