Multiple Sclerosis - The History of a Disease


T. Jock. Murray
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
New York : : Demos Medical Publishing, , 2005.
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1 online resource (594 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; C h a p t e r 1 Terminology and Disease Description; C h a p t e r 2: The Framing of Multiple Sclerosis; C h a p t e r 3: The Palsy without a Name: Suffering with Paraplegia 1395-1868; C h a p t e r 4: The Steps Toward a Discovery: The Early Medical Reports; C h a p t e r 5: The Building Blocks of a Discovery; C h a p t e r 6: The Contribution of J.M. Charcot-1868; C h a p t e r 7: Medical Reports After Charcot; C h a p t e r 8: Clarifying the Pathology: James Dawson; C h a p t e r 9: The Journal of a Disappointed Man. - C h a p t e r 10: Experimentation, Meetings, Reviews, and Symposia, 1920-1960C h a p t e r 11: Searching for a Cause of MS; C h a p t e r 12: Classifying and Measuring MS; C h a p t e r 13: The Nature of the MS Plaque; C h a p t e r 14: Investigations; C h a p t e r 15: Searching for Therapy; C h a p t e r 16: Multiple Sclerosis and the Public: Societies, Narratives, and the Media; Afterword; A Chronology of Events in the History of MS; Index. - Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal! The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic disease of young adults, usually beginning with episodic attacks of neurologic symptoms, then entering a progressive phase some years later. Its onset has an average age of 30, and occurs in about 1 in 500 individuals of European ancestry living primarily in temperate climates. There appears to be a complex interaction between a genetic predis
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