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The Turnstone
In this vivid and compelling memoir, Dr. Geoffrey Dean tells the story of his lifetime of travel, medical practice, and groundbreaking research. Born in Wales in 1918, Dean spent his early years in the north of England. After training to be a doctor in Liverpool, he served during the Second World War as a medical officer in Bomber Command. Following the war, as he recounts here, Dean relocated himself and his family to South Africa, where he established a busy medical practice that he continued for more than twenty years. During this period, he kept at the forefront of medical research, devoting the bulk of his attention to the epidemiology of porphyria, a disease that causes paralysis. All the while, his work kept him traveling, with stops in China, Sweden, Holland, Cyprus, and Spain—including a period as the personal physician to the millionaire governor of the Fiji Islands. Threaded through with surprising adventures and rich anecdotes of the author's travels in the course of his research, The Turnstone is a lively account of the life of a man whose commitment to medicine brought him to the ends of the earth—and kept him there for more than sixty years.
Madness and Memory
The author, a 1997 recipient of the Noble Prize in medicine, describes the years he spent researching and demonstrating how the infectious proteins known as prions were responsible for brain diseases and how his theory has now become widely accepted in the science establishment.
Muscle Diseases
This concise disorder-specific clinical text on muscle diseases covers current and new concepts in patient management. Due to advances in molecular genetics, the field of muscle diseases is evolving rapidly and clinicians need to stay abreast of the latest developments in diagnosis and treatment. Neuromuscular specialists and general neurologists will benefit from the cutting edge knowledge contained within this authoritative text.
Biotechnology and Healthy Ageing Policy Implications of New Research
If present trends in fertility and life expectancy continue, between one quarter and one third of the population in OECD countries will be over 65 years by 2025. The ageing population will have profound social and economic implications. Not ...
Myasthenia Gravis and Related Diseases
This volume of proceedings includes the latest research on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of myasthenia gravis and related diseases. It includes reports of progress in the study of the acetylcholine receptor molecule and its function as a ligand-gated ion channel. Further topics include the molecular events involved in presynaptic neurotransmitter release, postsynaptic antigens in autoimmune myasthenia gravis, the immune mechanisms involved in Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, and genetically determined abnormalities of neuromuscular transmission.
Recent Advances in Clinical Neurophysiology
Over 200 papers address all aspects of clinical neurophysiology, focusing on fundamentals and major new developments with practical applications; they also review the current clinical applications of established electrophysiologic studies. The special lectures cover the molecular basis of nerve transmission, and muscle spindles and the human fusimotor system. Other topics include anterior horn cell disorder and the hyper-excitable state, myotonia and periodic paralysis, multimodal non-invasive studies of higher brain functions, assessing pain, peripheral and central fatigue, micro-neurography, electrodiagnosis in children, motor unit number estimates, brainstem reflexes, eye movement disorders, event-related potentials in psychiatric disorders, and sleep monitoring. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Ethics of Genetic Screening
This collection of essays represents the work produced in the course of a three-year project funded by the Commission of the European Communities under the Biomed I programme, on the ethics of genetic screening, entitled 'Genetic screening: ethical and philosophical perspectives, with special reference to multifactorial diseases'. The short title of the project was Euroscreen, thereafter known as Euroscreen I, in the light of the fact that a second project on genetic screening was subsequently funded. The project was multinational and multidisciplinary, and had as its objectives to examine the nature and extent of genetic screening programmes in different European countries; to analyse the s...
