Episodes in the History of Medical Science: Discovery Meets Orthodoxy
Author:   Anthony R. Rees (Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry & Author, Stockholm, Sweden)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
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Pages:   294
Publication Date:   16 February 2026
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Episodes in the History of Medical Science: Discovery Meets Orthodoxy


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Author:   Anthony R. Rees (Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry & Author, Stockholm, Sweden)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9780443438769


ISBN 10:   0443438765
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   16 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. The origins of medical theory and practice 2. A new disease, syphilis, arrives in Europe and with it new medical voices 3. Smallpox: Origins and remedies 4. A revolutionary solution to smallpox arrives…but not without opposition 5. Scientific skepticism in the 19th & 20th centuries: Not new but more divisive 6. Genes and heredity 7. The staccato discovery of penicillin 8. Trials and tragedies…the thalidomide story 9. Fusion of a different kind: The antibody revolution 10. A different ‘helix’ story: Stomach ulcers caused by bacteria? 11. Anti-vaccinationism and hesitancy in the modern era 12. Lessons from twenty-five millennia of medical science orthodoxy

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Anthony Robert Rees, educated at the University of Oxford (MSc, MA, DPhil), has had a distinguished academic and research career spanning over 30 years in receptor biology and molecular immunology. He served as a Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics at Oxford (1980-90) before becoming Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the School of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath (1990-97). He was honored with an Emeritus Professorship in 2003 and a Doctor of Science Honoris Causa in 2009 by the University of Bath. Rees co-founded the Oxford University spin-out, Oxford Molecular plc, in 1989, which floated on the LSE in 1994. He held senior executive roles in French and Swedish biotech companies and was a founding board member of the Austrian antibody biotech company F-star. An expert in antibody repertoire theory, he is a consultant in immunology and a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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