Main description:

A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine is an account of how nuclear medicine developed, and its basic philosophy in the past, present and future. The book outlines the history of the development of nuclear medicine as experienced by the author and describes the hurdles that nuclear medicine has had to face, in view of the perception of risk of radiation. It also explains how nuclear medicine solves medical problems in clinical practice and how it has contributed to a new definition of disease. The book concludes with future projections of the likely developments in this area in the next 50 years.

Target market: nuclear medicine professionals as well non-nuclear medicine physicians and the public

Contents:

Survival of the Luckiest.- So You Want To Be a Doctor.- First Taste of Research.- Medical School and House Staff Days.- The National Institutes of Health.- A New Medical Specialty.- The Early Days.- The Thyroid Paves the Way.- The Breakthrough to Lung Scanning.- Computers in Nuclear Medicine.- From the Lungs to the Heart.- Growth Out of Control.- Molecular Communication.- The Fight Against Infectious Disease.- A New Approach to Disease.- The Genetic Revolution.