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Paul Bernard Foley
Beans, Roots and Leaves
A History of the Chemical Therapy of Parkinsonism |
| Parkinsonism of various types has long been a debilitating and cruel affliction for significant numbers of people, and even today the cure remains elusive. The present volume explores the colorful and sometimes alarming history of the attempts to provide at least some relief from the symptoms of this disorder, commencing with interesting reports from ancient India and medieval Europe and continuing until the present time. Especial attention is devoted to L-DOPA therapy, still the leading pharmacological approach to the disorder more than forty years after its first application, and its place in the development of neurochemistry. But the employment of solanaceous plant alkaloid-based therapies, which dominated antiparkinsonian therapy until the mid-20th century, and the broad range of other approaches which found varying degrees of popularity, including those stimulated by the encephalitis epidemic which appeared in Europe during the First World War, are also discussed. The author concludes that antiparkinsonian therapy was never ‘irrational’, but was rather always determined by prevailing medical, pharmacological and scientific paradigms, so that its history is inextricably linked with experimental and clinical developments in these fields. |
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| Paul Bernard Foley
Seit 2003 ist der Medizinhistoriker Paul Foley am Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute (Sydney) engagiert mit einer vom Australian Research Council unterstützten Untersuchung der Geschichte der Encephalitis lethargica beschäftigt, ein Projekt, das er als Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Stipendiat in Würzburg eingeleitet hat. „Beans, Roots and Leaves“ ist sein erstes Buch.
Die Dissertation, die dem Buch zugrunde liegt, wurde 2002 den Preis der „International Society for the History of the Neurosciences“ (ISHN) für die beste Studentenabhandlung/Dissertation in der Periode 1999-2001 zuerkannt; während der 2003 Versammlung der Deutschen Parkinson-Gesellschaft wurde Dr. Foley von der Senator Dr. Franz Burda-Stiftung für seinen Beitrag zur Erforschung der Parkinson-Krankheit ausgezeichnet.
Since 2003, the medical historian Paul Foley has been engaged at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute (Sydney) in an Australian Research Council-funded investigation of the history of encephalitis lethargica, a project he initiated as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Würzburg. ‘Beans, Roots and Leaves’ is his first book.
The dissertation upon which it is based was awarded the 2002 ‘International Society for the History of the Neurosciences’ (ISHN) Prize for Best Student Essay/Dissertation in the period 1999-2001; Dr Foley received at the 2003 meeting of the German Parkinson's Disease Society the Award of the Senator Dr. Franz Burda Foundation for his contribution to research in Parkinson's disease. |
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ISBN
978-3-8288-8496-0
908 Seiten,
Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag
Tectum Verlag
2003
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