University of Chicago Press, 1982 Paper: 978-0-226-05899-3 | eISBN: 978-0-226-07563-1 | Cloth: 978-0-226-05897-9 Library of Congress Classification QP572.I5B58 1982 Dewey Decimal Classification 615.365
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Michael Bliss is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, a recipient of the Order of Canada, and an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is the award-winning author of many books, including William Osler: A Life in Medicine and Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery.
REVIEWS
The story of insulin's discovery out to be a novel...but Michael Bliss's splendid account is just as absorbing as any fiction.
— I S I S
Using previously unpublished, suppressed, or privately circulated documents, Bliss sets forth the full story of the epochal discovery. It is a tale of frustration, tension, and acute personal rivalry...The book has moments of pure delight.
— Peter H. Desmond, Washington Post
The new, twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of The Discovery of Insulin kept me...riveted with Michael Bliss's documentation, chock-full of jealousy, pride, and intrigue. [This book] is a must read for all of those whose lives have been touched by diabetes.
— Lois Jovanovic, MD, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Few events in modern medical history were as dramatic as the discovery of insulin, and fewer still are the books that have captured a medical breakthrough as brilliantly as Michael Bliss's classic account. Today, when the expectations of post-genomic medicine have reached new heights, the timing for a twenty-fifth-anniversary edition could not be better.
— David Naylor, MD, President and Former Dean of Medicine, University of Toronto
Bliss provides a breathtaking account of what it really means to be on the cutting edge of scientific discovery.
— James Shapiro, MD, Director of the Clinical Islet Translplant Program, University of Alberta
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: What Happened at Toronto?
1. A Long Parade
2. Banting's Idea
3. The Summer of 1921
4. "A Mysterious Something"
5. Triumph
6. "Unspeakably Wonderful"
7. Resurrection
8. Who Discovered Insulin?
9. Honouring the Prophets
10. A Continuing Epilogue
Notes
Sources
Index
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University of Chicago Press, 1982 Paper: 978-0-226-05899-3 eISBN: 978-0-226-07563-1 Cloth: 978-0-226-05897-9
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Michael Bliss is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, a recipient of the Order of Canada, and an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is the award-winning author of many books, including William Osler: A Life in Medicine and Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery.
REVIEWS
The story of insulin's discovery out to be a novel...but Michael Bliss's splendid account is just as absorbing as any fiction.
— I S I S
Using previously unpublished, suppressed, or privately circulated documents, Bliss sets forth the full story of the epochal discovery. It is a tale of frustration, tension, and acute personal rivalry...The book has moments of pure delight.
— Peter H. Desmond, Washington Post
The new, twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of The Discovery of Insulin kept me...riveted with Michael Bliss's documentation, chock-full of jealousy, pride, and intrigue. [This book] is a must read for all of those whose lives have been touched by diabetes.
— Lois Jovanovic, MD, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Few events in modern medical history were as dramatic as the discovery of insulin, and fewer still are the books that have captured a medical breakthrough as brilliantly as Michael Bliss's classic account. Today, when the expectations of post-genomic medicine have reached new heights, the timing for a twenty-fifth-anniversary edition could not be better.
— David Naylor, MD, President and Former Dean of Medicine, University of Toronto
Bliss provides a breathtaking account of what it really means to be on the cutting edge of scientific discovery.
— James Shapiro, MD, Director of the Clinical Islet Translplant Program, University of Alberta
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: What Happened at Toronto?
1. A Long Parade
2. Banting's Idea
3. The Summer of 1921
4. "A Mysterious Something"
5. Triumph
6. "Unspeakably Wonderful"
7. Resurrection
8. Who Discovered Insulin?
9. Honouring the Prophets
10. A Continuing Epilogue
Notes
Sources
Index
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