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100 1 _aMoran, Michael E.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aUrolithiasis
_h[electronic resource] :
_bA Comprehensive History /
_cby Michael E. Moran.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aXIV, 471 p. 59 illus., 27 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
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505 0 _aA 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 Röntgen 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) -- Epilogue.
520 _aUrolithiasis: 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.
650 0 _aMedicine.
650 0 _aInternal medicine.
650 0 _aEndocrinology.
650 0 _aNephrology.
650 0 _aEmergency medicine.
650 0 _aUrology.
650 1 4 _aMedicine & Public Health.
650 2 4 _aUrology/Andrology.
650 2 4 _aPrimary Care Medicine.
650 2 4 _aNephrology.
650 2 4 _aInternal Medicine.
650 2 4 _aEndocrinology.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8196-6
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