Helicobacter Pioneers: Firsthand Accounts from the Scientists who Discovered Helicobacters 1892 - 1982 [Paperback]

Barry Marshall (Editor)

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Publication Date: May 22, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0867930357 | ISBN-13: 978-0867930351 | Edition: 1

Blackwell is proud to announce Professor Barry Marshall, along with Dr. Robin Warren, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

Providing background and the human touch of a discovery process taking almost a century, Helicobacter Pioneers is a collection of accounts from pioneering researchers of Helicobacter pylori, of who had firsthand knowledge of the pioneer.

A remarkable work with original accounts that will never date, this book will inspire readers interested in gastroenterology, microbiology, or any facet of medical or scientific history.

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Providing background and the human touch of a discovery process taking almost a century, Helicobacter Pioneers is a collection of accounts from pioneering researchers of Helicobacter pylori, of who had firsthand knowledge of the pioneer.

A remarkable work with original accounts that will never date, this book will inspire readers interested in gastroenterology, microbiology, or in any facet of medical or scientific history.

About the Author

Barry J. Marshall – Curriculum Vitae
Barry J. Marshall, born September 30, 1951, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Academic Education and Appointments
1968-74 M.B., B.S., Univ. of Western Australia
1977-84 Registrar, Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital
1985-86 NHMRC Research Fellow, Gastroenterology, Royal Perth Hospital
1986-94 Research Fellow and Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Virginia
1996 Professor of Research in Internal Medicine, Univ. of Virginia
1997 Clinical Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Western Australia
1999 Clinical Professor of Microbiology, Univ. of Western Australia
2003 NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Univ. of Western Australia

Selected Honours and Awards
1994 Warren Alpert Prize (shared with J.R. Warren)
1995 Australian Medical Association Award (shared with J.R. Warren)
1995 Albert Lasker Award
1996 Gairdner Award
1997 Paul Ehrlich Prize (shared with J.R. Warren)
1998 DR AH Heineken Prize for Medicine, Amsterdam
1998 Florey Medal, Canberra
1998 Buchanan Medal, Royal Society
1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Sciences, Philadelphia
2002 Keio Medical Science Prize
2003 Australian Centenary Meda
2005 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with J.R. Warren)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (May 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0867930357
• ISBN-13: 978-0867930351
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.6 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Helicobacter has been a revelation as a germ related to peptic ulcer and mainly of precancerous gastric lessions. The book is a really exitant narrative of the steps conducing to this assertion and to the knowledge that many millions of human beings have it in their stomach. The editor and author of one autobiographical chapter, Barry Marshall is also one of the scientists which discovered this amazing relationship, and describe in great detail his predecessors contribution on the previous one hundred years.Among the collaborators are some people that contributed to the book withfisthand accounts of their own research and contrributions to the discovery of the bactery itself and also of its role as peptic ulcer and gastric cancer etiological agent. Thed presence of the germ in gastric lessons, the polossibility to develop experimental ulcers and transmit it to experimentation animals are described in vivid and exiting accounts. The final step is the paralell and related work by Marshall and Robin Warren in Perth, Austrealia, solving the riddle of peptic ulcer disease and bringing them to a Nobel Prize.