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by James Le Fanu

sulphonamides 152, 238–44

  sulphonylureas 243

  surgery

  age limitations 450–3

  developments 249, 444

  hip replacements 121–30

  keyhole 261, 440, 447–50

  microsurgery 250–4

  post-operative complications 108, 118

  psychosurgery 79–80

  scope of 2

  see also cardiac surgery; transplants

  Swanson, Robert 326–7, 328

  systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE) 498

  Taussig, Helen 103, 104

  technology 222, 248–62, 420

  diagnostic 249, 289–91, 420

  dying 296–8

  empirical nature 271

  endoscopes 249, 254–62, 448

  foetal monitoring 291–5

  forms of 249

  intentional solutions 248

  laparoscopes 181, 221, 255, 260–1

  operating microscopes 250–4

  Teflon 125, 126, 127, 128

  Temin, Howard 320, 321

  Tesi, Raymond 452

  test-tube babies 179

  see also IVF

  text-cutters (DNA) 319, 326, 333

  thalassaemia 335

  thalidomide 281, 282

  therapeutic revolution

  definitive moments 2, 3, 7, 180, 216–17, 244

  disease processes 283

  dynamics of 245

  faltering 305

  potential realised 275

  scale of 2

  see also pharmaceutical industry

  thiotepa 164

  thiourea 243

  Thomas, Lewis 11

  throats, strep sore 241

  thrombus (clots) 361, 367–8, 370, 379–81

  thyrotoxicosis 243

  thyroxine 31

  tracheostomy 85, 89, 91

  transplants

  bone marrow 146

  heart 103, 119, 146

  immune system 131–6

  immunosuppressants 133, 142, 144, 145, 146, 242

  kidneys 131, 136–41, 452

  liver 146

  lungs 146

  see also replantation

  Trounson, Alan 200

  tuberculosis 48–9

  AIDS 56–7

  clinical trials 53–6

  decline in 353–5, 359–60

  Orwell 57–8

  streptomycin 41, 47–8, 51

  treatment 41, 43, 49, 56

  Tyndall, John 256

  uncertainty 400

  Upjohn 245, 247

  urology 448

  utopianism 400–1

  Valium 510

  valve replacements, hearts 118

  Vane, John 380

  vegetables 392–3

  ventilation

  iron-lungs 86–7, 89, 90

  oxygen 84, 248

  polio 85, 87–92

  post-operative 94–5

  victim-blaming, Social Theory 404

  Victoria, Queen 334

  vincristine 159, 167, 171, 173

  Vining, Leo 25

  viruses 319, 339, 343, 411, 412

  vitamins 12

  Wade, Nicholas 459

  Waksman, Selman 24–5, 50, 166, 264–5

  Warren, J. Robin 209

  wartime, influence of 217–19

  water pollution 390–1

  Watson, James 216, 313, 455

  Waugh, Grant 58–9

  Waugh, William 126

  White, Paul 227–8, 365

  WHO Trial 372, 401

  Wildavsky, Aaron 395

  Wiles, Philip 123

  Wills, Christopher 316–17

  Wills, Lucy 165

  withdrawal syndrome 479

  Woglom, W. H. 161

  Wolf, Stewart 207

  Wolff, Howard 207

  Wood, Marcus de 380

  Woods, Donald 241

  worried well 5–6, 424

  Wurtman, Richard 281

  Wyngaarden, James 278, 300

  Yalta conference 149

  Zantac 467–9

  Zeiss 249–50

  Zollinger-Ellinson syndrome 206

  Zuelzer, Wolf 160

 

 

 


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