Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : fr
Pages : 400
Book Description
Bulletin international de l'Académie polonaise des sciences et des lettres, Classe des sciences mathématiques et naturelles
Author: Bulletin International
Author: Polska Akademia Umiejętności. Wydział Matematyczno-PrzyrodniczyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 378
Book Description
Bulletin International
Author: Polska Akademia Umiejętności. Wydział Matematyczno-PrzyrodniczyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : fr
Pages : 532
Book Description
Bulletin International
Author: Polska Akademia Umiejętności. Wydział Matematyczno-PrzyrodniczyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : fr
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Index of NLM Serial Titles
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Author: Arthur AllenPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
“Thought-provoking…[Allen] writes without sanctimony and never simplifies the people in his book or the moral issues his story inevitably raises." —Wall Street Journal Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed—refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples—causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl. In the 1920s, Weigl had created the first typhus vaccine using a method as bold as it was dangerous for its use of living human subjects. The astonishing success of Weigl’s techniques attracted the attention and admiration of the world—giving him cover during the Nazi’s violent occupation of Lviv. His lab soon flourished as a hotbed of resistance. Weigl hired otherwise doomed mathematicians, writers, doctors, and other thinkers, protecting them from atrocity. The team engaged in a sabotage campaign by sending illegal doses of the vaccine into the Polish ghettos while shipping gallons of the weakened serum to the Wehrmacht. Among the scientists saved by Weigl, who was a Christian, was a gifted Jewish immunologist named Ludwik Fleck. Condemned to Buchenwald and pressured to re-create the typhus vaccine under the direction of a sadistic Nazi doctor, Erwin Ding-Schuler, Fleck had to make an awful choice between his scientific ideals or the truth of his conscience. In risking his life to carry out a dramatic subterfuge to vaccinate the camp’s most endangered prisoners, Fleck performed an act of great heroism. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with survivors, Arthur Allen tells the harrowing story of two brave scientists—a Christian and a Jew— who put their expertise to the best possible use, at the highest personal danger.
Periodicals Currently Received in Army Medical Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: United States Medical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Current List of Medical Literature
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Includes section, "Recent book acquisitions" (varies: Recent United States publications) formerly published separately by the U.S. Army Medical Library.
North American Flora
Author: Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)
Author: John Wesley BrownPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004475389
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
Concerns about global biodiversity are rising dramatically, yet we are lagging behind in the most basic prerequisite for its understanding and conservation: the inventory. Insect species may make up five or ten times the number of all other plant and animal species combined, and as such they represent one of the major challenges in biosystematic science. The World Catalogue of Insects series is an initiative compiling worldscale, authoritative catalogues of monophyletic insect taxa. Each volume in the series contains standard nomenclatoral information on all names pertaining to the taxon treated, including type locality and distribution to the extent this is relevant. Additional information is optional, e.g., location, status and condition of types; biology; bibliographical information; pest status; vector status; etc. This volume five focuses on Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). (Series: World Catalogue of Insects)