Walter B. Cannon, Science and Society

by Elin L. Wolfe, A. Clifford Barger, Saul Benison

Book Overview

This second volume completes the story begun in Walter B. Cannon: The Life and Times of a Young Scientist (Harvard University Press, 1987), tracing the middle and late years of one of America's most distinguished medical scientists.

It resumes during World War II 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002512
• ISBN13: 9780674002517
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Boston Medical Library in the Countway Librar
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"