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- A lengthy prologue : ten definitive moments. 1941 : penicillin ; 1949 : cortisone ; 1950 : streptomycin, smoking and Sir Austin Bradford Hill ; 1952 : chlorpromazine and the revolution in psychiatry ; 1955 : open-heart surgery, the last frontier ; 1963 : transplanting kidneys ; 1964 : the triumph of prevention, the case of strokes ; 1971 : curing childhood cancer ; 1978 : the first "test-tube" baby ; 1984 : helicobacter, the cause of peptic ulcer
- pt. 1. The rise
- pt. 2. The end of the age of optimism
- pt. 3. The fall
- pt. 4. The rise and fall : causes and consequences.