BookMichael E. Moran.
Summary: 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 the topic. This volume serves as a very useful tool for physicians and researchers dealing with kidney stone disease. Written by a renowned expert in the field, Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History is an in depth resource that heightens our medical understanding of this ancient disease and is of great value to urologists, nephrologists, endocrinologists interested in stone disease.
Contents:
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 Rentgen 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).