Bliss, Michael
The Discovery of Insulin
Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The discovery of insulin is told in an accessible and scholarly fashion. Michael Bliss's social history won the City of Toronto Book Award and the American William H. Welch Medal and many other awards. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound simply in brown cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Long range of black-and-white photographs interior. From the publisher's blurb, ""In a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times, award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings to light a bizarre clash of scientific personalities. When F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering and isolating insulin, Banting immediately announced that he was dividing his share of the prize with his young associate, C. H. Best. Macleod divided his share with a fourth member of the team, J. B. Collip. For the next sixty years medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery of insulin. In resolving this controversy, Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail on such subjects as the treatment of diabetes before insulin and the life-and-death struggle to manufacture insulin." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-304 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Keywords: Michael Bliss the discovery of insulin medical history F.G. Banting J.J.R. Macleod Nobel Prize C.H. Best J.B. Collip.