The Discovery of Insulin - Hardcover

Bliss, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226058972 ISBN 13: 9780226058979

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1982

Synopsis

In a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times, award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings to light a bizarre clash of scientific personalities. When F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering and isolating insulin, Banting immediately announced that he was dividing his share of the prize with his young associate, C. H. Best. Macleod divided his share with a fourth member of the team, J. B. Collip. For the next sixty years medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery of insulin. In resolving this controversy, Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail on such subjects as the treatment of diabetes before insulin and the life-and-death struggle to manufacture insulin.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Bliss is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and the History of Medicine Program at the University of Toronto.

Review:

'The definitive history ... well written, highly readable.'

(London Review of Books)

"Scrupulously researched and compellingly readable ... I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone with an interest in diabetes, medical history, or medical scandal and gossip."

(British Medical Journal)

"The Discovery of Insulin deserves a place on the bookshelf alongside such eye-openers as James Watson's The Double Helix."

(Washington Post)

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Limited
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0226058972
• ISBN 13: 9780226058979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304