The Discovery of Insulin

Download or read book The Discovery of Insulin written by Michael Bliss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to life. In the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of a classic, Michael Bliss unearths scientists' memoirs and confidential appraisals of insulin by members of the Nobel Committee. he also resolves a longstanding controversy about scientific collaboration at its most fractious and fascinating: who ultimately deserves credit for the discovery? Bliss's life-and-death saga illuminates one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of medicine.