Graciela S Alarcon, Renato D Alarcon

Broschiertes Buch

The Bartonellas and Peruvian Medicine

The Work of Alberto Leonardo Barton

Beschreibung

Explores the events surrounding the discovery of the etio-pathogenic agent of the Oroya Fever, also known as Peruvian Verruga or Carrià n's disease by Dr. Alberto Leonardo Barton. Graciela S. Alarcà n and Renato D. Alarcà n recount Barton's persistent work against scepticism, obstacles, and limitations imposed by members of Peru's medical elites of the time.

Autor

GRACIELA S. ALARCON, MD, MPH, MACR, is the Jane Knight Lowe Chair of Medicine in Rheumatology, Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and emeritus professor of medicine at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Perú.   RENATO D. ALARCON, MD, MPH, is an emeritus professor of psychiatry and psychology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, and the Honorio Delgado Chair (Psychiatry) at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Perú. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780813596136
• ISBN-10: 0813596130
• Artikelnr.: 52615109