The discovery of insulin
When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to life. In this study, Michael Bliss unearths a wealth of material, ranging from scientists' unpublished memoirs to the confidential appraisals of insulin by members of the Nobel Committee. He also resolves a longstanding controversy dating to the awarding of the Nobel to F.G. Banting and J.J.R. Macleod for their work on insulin: because each insisted on sharing the credit with an additional associate, medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery. Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail on such subjects as the treatment of diabetes before insulin and the life-and-death struggle to manufacture it
Print Book, English, 2007
25th anniversary ed View all formats and editions
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007
Biography
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780226058993, 0226058999
74987867
Introduction: What happened at Toronto?
A long prelude
Banting's idea
The summer of 1921
"A mysterious something"
Triumph
"Unspeakably wonderful"
Resurrection
Who discovered insulin?
Honoring the prophets
A continuing epilogue
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