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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