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correction - Walter B. Cannon book



Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L at the request of Dr. Adam Moore.  Correction 
to <http://www.medsch.ucla.edu/som/bri/archives/hnl/msg00049.htm>

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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:21:27 -0500
From: Dr Adam G N Moore <agnm@massmed.org>
Subject: correction - Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945) 

Dear Russell A. Johnson, 

I was glad you forwarded info on the W. B. Cannon book to the neurology 
list.  But... now you might like to forward this correction to 
HISTNEUR-L@library.ucla.edu also. I am sorry for having allowed myself 
to be fooled by a whole war !

       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. 

A few days ago, I quoted the distributor's summary about this absorbing 
volume. Now my face is red because I failed to check its facts, and 
thus referred to the wrong war. I regret my laxness and am sorry to 
have broadcast the error. 

This book completes the story begun in Walter B. Cannon: The Life and 
Times of a Young Scientist (Harvard UP, 1987, now out of print) tracing 
the middle and late years of one of America's most distinguished 
medical scientists. 

It resumes during the FIRST WORLD WAR 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, 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. 
 
ISBN 0-674-00251-2   Thirty dollars / Eighteen pounds fifty; cloth;  6 
1/8 x 9 1/4 inches; x,644pp, plates, extensive notes, index;  
Science/Biography 

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Russell A. Johnson        rjohnson@library.ucla.edu


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