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197,59 €1. A History of Histories
2. Epistemology and Lithology
3. Laboring Under the Stone: A Literary Legacy of Lithiasis
4. Paleolithology
5. Greco-Roman Stone Disease
6. Dark Ages, Dark Therapies
7. Renaissance of Urolithiasis
8. Van Beverwijck: The Bridge from Ancient to Modern
9. Enlightened Minds and Stone Disease
10. Charlatans, Quacks, and Joanna Stephens
11. Evolution of Stone Disease
12. Founding Fathers of Stone Chemistry
13. Famous Stone Sufferers
14. Frederik Ruysch’s Fascination with Urolithiasis
15. Gray’s Anatomy of Stones: Henry Vandyke Carter
16. The Stone Hospital and Stone Treatment
17. Liesegang Rings
18. Lithotomy
19. Lithotrity and Litholapaxy
20. Imaging the Beast: Sounding, Lithoscopes, and Röntgen Rays
21. Rise of “Science” in Stone Disease
22. Fictitious Stones and Sir William Osler
23. Early Modern Stone Disease
24. Epidemiology
25. Pathophysiology
26. The Rarest Stone of All!
27. The Largest Stone of All!
28. Lithotripsy: From Rocket Science to the Clinic
29. Modern Stone Science
30. Equal Rights: Stone Disease and Females
31. The Urologist’s Guide to the Galaxy
32. Towards Keeping the Hippocratic Oath (Six Sigma)
33. Epilogue
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.
Features
• Written by the Curator for the American Urological Association's William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History
• Provides depth and details not found in modern overviews on the topic
• Integrates classic material and new concepts
Author
Michael E. Moran, M.D. Curator, Wiliam P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, American Urological Association, Linthicum, MD, USA. Former President and Secretary to the R.O.C.K. Society, dedicated to urolithiasis research
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