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Urolithiasis, 2014
A Comprehensive History
Author: Moran Michael E.
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Urolithiasis: 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.
Ch.1: A History of Histories
Ch.2: Epistemology and Lithology
Ch.3: Laboring Under the Stone: A Literary Legacy of Lithiasis
Ch.4: Paleolithology
Ch.5: Greco-Roman Stone Disease
Ch.6: Dark Ages, Dark Therapies
Ch.7: Renaissance of Urolithiasis
Ch.8: van Beverwijck-The Bridge from Ancient to Modern
Ch.9: Enlightened Minds and Stone Disease
Ch.10: Charlatans, Quacks & Joanna Stephens
Ch.11: Evolution of Stone Disease
Ch.12: Founding Fathers of Stone Chemistry
Ch.13: Famous Stone Sufferers
Ch.14: Frederik Ruysch’s Fascination With Urolithiasis
Ch.15: Gray’s Anatomy of Stones: Henry Vandyke Carter
Ch.16: The Stone Hospital & Stone Treatment
Ch.17: Liesegang’s Rings
Ch.18: Lithotomy
Ch.19: Litholapaxy- Civiale to Bigelow, von Kern controversy (1828)
Ch.20: Imaging the Beast- Sounding, Lithoscopes and Röntgen Rays
Ch.21: Rise of “Science” in Stone Disease
Ch.22: Fictitious Stones and Sir William Osler
Ch.23: Early Modern Stone Disease
Ch.24: Epidemiology
Ch.25: Pathophysiology
Ch.26: The Rarest Stone of All!
Ch.27: The Largest Stone of All!
Ch.28: Lithotripsy: From Rocket Science to the Clinic
Ch.29: Modern Stone Science
Ch.30: Equal Rights: Stone Disease and Females
Ch.31: Urologist’s Guide to the Galaxy
Ch.32: Towards Keeping the Hippocratic Oath (Six Sigma)
Ch.33: Epilogue
Michael E. Moran, M.D.
Curator, Wiliam P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, American Urological Association, Linthicum, MD, USA
Former President and Secretary to the R.O.C.K. Society, dedicated to urolithiasis research
Written by the Curator for the American Urological Association's William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History
Provides depth and details not found in modern overviews on the topic
Integrates classic material and new concepts
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras