The tropical world of Samuel Taylor Darling; parasites, pathology, and philanthropy.9781845191832 The tropical world of Samuel Taylor Samuel (or Sam) Taylor may refer to:
Chaves-Carballo, E. Sussex Academic Press 2007 260 pages $75.00 Hardcover RC961 Darling (1872-1925), who understood a staggering amount about tropical diseases, derived much from performing over 4,000 autopsies of workers who died constructing the Panama Canal Panama Canal, waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic (by way of the Caribbean Sea) and Pacific oceans, built by the United States (1904–14) on territory leased from the republic of Panama. ; his investigations into malaria, hookworm hookworm, any of a number of bloodsucking nematodes in the phylum Nematoda, order Strongiloidae that live as parasites in humans and other mammals and attach themselves to the host's intestines by means of hooks. , amebiasis amebiasis: see dysentery. and other tropical diseases led him to Panama, and to the Far East, South Africa, and Brazil. Chaves-Carballo (history and philosphy of medicine, Kansas University Medical Center) is also a physician with expertise in tropical diseases, and some of his interest in his subject stems from dismay at how much suffering they continue to cause, even when the science is underestood. He provides a well-researched biography of a remarkable scientist. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS ISBS International Society of Biomechanics in Sports ISBS International Society for Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin ISBS Illinois State Button Society ISBS Iowa State Button Society ISBS Idaho State Button Society . ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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