Graciela S Alarcón, Renato D Alarcón

The Bartonellas and Peruvian Medicine

The Work of Alberto Leonardo Barton

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780813596143
• ISBN-10: 0813596149
• Artikelnr.: 52610398

Autorenporträt

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. 

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENT
Dedication.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
On behalf of the family.
Foreword.
1. Alberto Leonardo Barton: Biographic notes.
2. Bartonella bacilliformnis.
3. Pre-Inca and Inca Periods
4. Conquest and Viceroyalty
5. Republican Period
1. Pre-Carrión;s period
2. Carrión's period
3. Post-Carrión's period
4. Post Carrión and Post Alberto L. Baron's period
6. Carrión's disease.
7. The Other Bartonellas.
8. Reflexions and Perspectives: Barton, the Bartonellas and Peruvian Medicine.
9. Conclusions.
10. Comments: Alberto Leonardo Barton and Bartonella bacilliformis.