Protagonists of Medicine - Ribatti, Domenico; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Immunology and pathology -- Foreword -- Paul Ehrlich's Doctoral Thesis: A Milestone in the Study of Mast Cells -- The Contribution of Gianni Bonadonna to the History of Chemotherapy -- Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the Clonal Selection Theory of Antibody Formation -- The Contribution of Bruce Glick to the Definition of the Role Played by the Bursa of Fabricius in the Development of the B-Cell Lineage -- Miller's Seminal Studies on the Role of Thymus in Immunity -- The Fundamental Contribution of Robert A. Good to the Discovery of the Crucial Role of Thymus in Mammalian Immunity -- The Fundamental Contribution of Jan C. Waldenström to the Discovery and Study of the So-Called Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia -- Vascular biology and angiogenesis -- Foreword -- Giulio Bizzozero and the Discovery of Platelets -- A milestone in the Study of the Vascular System: Wilhelm Roux's Doctoral Thesis on the Bifurcation of Blood Vessels -- Stephen Paget and the "Seed and Soil" Theory of Metastatic Dissemination -- The Contribution of Roberto Montesano to the Study of Interactions Between Epithelial Sheets and the Surrounding Extracellular Matrix -- The Seminal Work of Werner Risau in the Study of the Development of the Vascular System -- Judah Folkman, A Pioneer in the Study of Angiogenesis -- The Contribution of Harold F. Dvorak to the Study of Tumour Angiogenesis and Stroma Generation Mechanisms -- Napoleone Ferrara and the Saga of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor -- Pietro M. Gullino and Angiogenesis.
Keywords: Cancer research; Oncology .; Medicine-History.; Medicine-Philosophy.; Philosophy and science; Cancer Research; Oncology; History of Medicine; Philosophy of Medicine; Philosophy of Science