Description: Vertigo : Five Physician Scientists and the Quest for a Cure, Hardcover by Baloh, Robert W., ., ISBN 0190600128, ISBN-13 9780190600129, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), the most common cause of vertigo, affects one in five people at some point during their lifetime, triggering the sudden feeling like one is moving or spinning when perfectly still. Early pieces of this medical puzzle appeared in the early 19th
century in studies of the inner ear, yet the cause and cure for BPPV was not clearly understood until the late 20th century and it took a few more decades before this simple cure was accepted.
Vertigo: Five Physician Scientists and the Quest for a Cure follows this centuries long trek. Th follows the key discoveries made by Prosper Meniere (1) who first recognized that vertigo could originate from the inner ear, Josef Breuer (1) who conducted groundbreaking research
on the inner ear during his evenings at home after he spent his days working in a busy private medical practice, Robert Barany (1) who received the Nobel Prize for his early work on the inner ear, Charles Hallpike (1) who showed that BPPV originates from the inner ear, and Harold
Schuknecht (1) who provided key observations on the mechanism of BPPV.
Dr. Robert W. Baloh spins together a fascinating history using detailed interviews from those close to the key investigators and historical documents previously unavailable in the English language to provide a historical approach to understanding the vestibular system and with it a better
understanding of vertigo itself.
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Book Title: Vertigo : Five Physician Scientists and the Quest for a Cure
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Vertigo : Five Physician Scientists and the Quest for a Cure
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Neuroscience, Otorhinolaryngology, Medical
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Item Length: 6.2 in
Author: Robert W. Baloh
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
