Urolithiasis

A Comprehensive History

Michael E. Moran

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Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
31 October 2013

Renal medicine & nephrology

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.

By: Michael E. Moran
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2014 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1.196kg
ISBN: 9781461481959
ISBN 10: 1461481953
Pages: 471
Publication Date: 31 October 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Roentgen 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

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A Comprehensive History

Michael E. Moran

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