Who goes first? : the story of self-experimentation in medicine
A history of the controversial practice of self-experimentation. In telling the stories of pioneering researchers, the text offers a history of many of the most important medical advancements in recent years as well as centuries past - from anesthaesia to yellow fever to heart disease
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1998
Biography
xxvi, 430 pages ; 23 cm
9780520212817, 0520212819
37732071
Foreword / Lewis Thomas
Ch. 1. An Overview
Ch. 2. Don't Touch the Heart
Ch. 3. The Perilous Route to Painless Surgery
Ch. 4. The Case of the Queasy Chemists
Ch. 5. The Pasteurian Club
Ch. 6. The Myth of Walter Reed
Ch. 7. Taming the Greatest Killers
Ch. 8. Toxic Shocks
Ch. 9. Fungi
Infecting and Hallucinating
Ch. 10. Lifetimes of Self-Experimenting
Ch. 11. Dietary Deprivations
Ch. 12. The Red Cell Riddle
Ch. 13. Black and Blue at the Flick of a Feather
Ch. 14. Cancer: Can You Give it to Yourself?
Ch. 15. Choosing the Right Animal
Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1987