Biographies and Other Essays on the History of Clinical Chemistry. Louis Rosenfeld, editor. Washington, DC: AACC Press, History Division, 1999, 381 pp., $12.00. ISBN 1-890883-21-2.

摘要

This book, published by the History Division of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, contains 79 articles from Clinical Chemistry that reflect the wide-ranging interests of their authors. The monograph was dedicated to Elizabeth K. Smith, PhD, a charter member of the History Division’s executive committee and grantor of the bequest that made this publication possible. The articles are arranged in five categories, each in the order of publication. Thirty-four of the selections are biographies, 12 are reviews of developments in the discipline, and 18 concern the modern origins of clinical chemistry. Laboratory-related activities are discussed in 11 of the articles, and the histories of commercial and industrial contributions …