Book Announcement: _Walter B. Cannon, Science and Society_ by Elin L. Wolfe, Clifford Barger, and Saul Benison (Harvard University Press, March 2000)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L (The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum) from H-SCI-MED-TECH. See <http://www.hup.harvard.edu/S00/catalog/WOLWAL.html> for more details on this book. Russell Johnson HISTNEUR-L administrator --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:02:26 -0500 From: "Nina Lerman, H-SCI-MED-TECH" <smtedit@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Subject: BOOK ANNC: Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945) Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology" <H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU> From: Dr Adam G N Moore <agnm@massmed.org> WALTER B. CANNON, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY by Elin L. Wolfe, A. Clifford Barger, and Saul Benison from the Boston Medical Library in the Countway Library of Medicine, and distributed by the Harvard University Press, is now available. This second volume completes the story begun in Walter B. Cannon: The Life and Times of a Young Scientist (Harvard University Press, 1987), tracing the middle and late years of one of America's most distinguished medical scientists. It resumes during World War II with Cannon's battlefield work on traumatic shock in England and France, and follows him to Harvard Medical School as he investigated the workings of the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system, reaffirmed his emergency theory of the sympathatico-adrenal system, and developed his now famous concept of homeostatis, and pioneered contributions to the newly emerging field of neuro-endocrinology. This volume also recounts Cannon's work with society on a much broader scale, including defending the practice of animal experimentation, the rescue of European medical emigrees fleeing the Nazis and Fascists, and providing medical aid to the Spanish Loyalists and to China. Moreover, as a senior statesman of science, Cannon helped guide politics and programs that shaped the future of medical research, practice, and education. --- End Forwarded Message --- ___________________________________________________ Russell A. Johnson rjohnson@library.ucla.edu