Main description:

Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History provides a historical sojourn into the varied manifestations of kidney stone disease. Utilizing historical sources and integrating classic material with new concepts, this new volume provides depth and details on stone disease not found in modern overviews on the topic. This volume serves as a very useful tool for physicians and researchers dealing with kidney stone disease.

Written by a renowned expert in the field, Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History is an in depth resource that heightens our medical understanding of this ancient disease and is of great value to urologists, nephrologists, endocrinologists interested in stone disease.

Contents:

Ch.1: A History of Histories

Ch.2: Epistemology and Lithology

Ch.3: Laboring Under the Stone: A Literary Legacy of Lithiasis

Ch.4: Paleolithology

Ch.5: Greco-Roman Stone Disease

Ch.6: Dark Ages, Dark Therapies

Ch.7: Renaissance of Urolithiasis

Ch.8: van Beverwijck-The Bridge from Ancient to Modern

Ch.9: Enlightened Minds and Stone Disease

Ch.10: Charlatans, Quacks & Joanna Stephens

Ch.11: Evolution of Stone Disease

Ch.12: Founding Fathers of Stone Chemistry

Ch.13: Famous Stone Sufferers

Ch.14: Frederik Ruysch's Fascination With Urolithiasis

Ch.15: Gray's Anatomy of Stones: Henry Vandyke Carter

Ch.16: The Stone Hospital & Stone Treatment

Ch.17: Liesegang's Rings

Ch.18: Lithotomy

Ch.19: Litholapaxy- Civiale to Bigelow, von Kern controversy (1828)

Ch.20: Imaging the Beast- Sounding, Lithoscopes and Roentgen Rays

Ch.21: Rise of "Science" in Stone Disease

Ch.22: Fictitious Stones and Sir William Osler

Ch.23: Early Modern Stone Disease

Ch.24: Epidemiology

Ch.25: Pathophysiology

Ch.26: The Rarest Stone of All!

Ch.27: The Largest Stone of All!

Ch.28: Lithotripsy: From Rocket Science to the Clinic

Ch.29: Modern Stone Science

Ch.30: Equal Rights: Stone Disease and Females

Ch.31: Urologist's Guide to the Galaxy

Ch.32: Towards Keeping the Hippocratic Oath (Six Sigma)

Ch.33: Epilogue