A Machine Called Indomitable - Hardcover

Kleinfield, Sonny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812912349 ISBN 13: 9780812912340

Publisher: Crown, 1985

Synopsis

Profiles the scientist who adapted for clinical use a nuclear magnetic resonance scanner that can detect the difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell by its chemistry, and which may replace X-rays, surgery, and CAT scans.

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From Publishers Weekly

Trained as a biophysicist, mathematician and physician, Raymond Damadian could have excelled as a concert violinist or tennis ace as well, according to this lively portrayal by New York Times reporter Kleinfield (The Trader, etc.). Instead, in his cellular research, Damadian adapted for clinical use a machine that enabled him to detect the difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell by its chemistry. So difficult was it to raise funds for research that the irate maverick scientist accused the cancer-research establishment of obstructing progress. Nevertheless, with obsessive determination, and despite derision and in some cases outright piracy on the part of his peers, he and his team developed a nuclear magnetic resonance human scanner that he believes will not only replace X-rays, surgery and CAT-scanning as diagnostic tools, but will serve other medical purposes, including a cure for cancer. January 28
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) scanning today is rapidly becoming an essential tool in the diagnosis of human disease, outperforming X-rays and CAT scans in many cases. Ten years ago the idea of human NMR scanning seemed ludicrous to much of the scien tific community. This book is the ac count of the development of NMR tech nology and a profile of one man, Dr. Raymond Damadian, who dreamed of NMR as a weapon against cancer and struggled almost obsessively against great odds to build the first human scanner Indomitable. The story, co gently told by Kleinfield, portrays the interplay of strong personalities which both spurred and hampered a major technological advance of this decade. Recommended. Margery C. Coombs, Zoology Dept., Univ. of Massachu setts, Amherst
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0812912349
• ISBN 13: 9780812912340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250