The Discovery of Insulin : : Special Centenary Edition /

The Discovery of Insulin : : Special Centenary Edition / / Michael Bliss.

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921–2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin, discovered by the Canadian research team of Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John Macleod, was a wonder drug with the ability to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
VerfasserIn:
Bliss, Michael ,
MitwirkendeR:
Li, Alison,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • NOTES
  • Preface for the Centenary (2021) Edition
  • INTRODUCTION What Happened at Toronto?
  • CHAPTER ONE A Long Prelude
  • CHAPTER TWO Banting's Idea
  • CHAPTER THREE The Summer of 1921
  • CHAPTER FOUR "A Mysterious Something"
  • CHAPTER FIVE Triumph
  • CHAPTER SIX "Unspeakably Wonderful"
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Resurrection
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Who Discovered Insulin?
  • CHAPTER NINE Honouring the Prophets
  • CHAPTER TEN A Continuing Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Index

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