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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