Jan Gösta Waldenstrom and his world : the life and work of a giant in science, medicine and humanity / Frank Wollheim.
Wollheim, Frank A.
2023
RB17.W35
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Title
Jan Gösta Waldenstrom and his world : the life and work of a giant in science, medicine and humanity / Frank Wollheim.
Author
Wollheim, Frank A.
ISBN
9783031367397 (electronic bk.)
3031367391 (electronic bk.)
3031367383
9783031367380
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36739-7
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-36739-7 doi
Call Number
RB17.W35
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.92
Summary
Jan Waldenstrm (1906-1996) was the leading Swedish internist of the twentieth century. The first chapter of the book presents his remarkable family including five generations of physicians. Born in Stockholm, we follow JW to medical school at Uppsala University during 192433. In 19345, he spent a year in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer in Munich. In 1937, he defended a landmark thesis on acute intermittent porphyria. As Docent (assistant professor) in Uppsala, he discovered two new diseases in 1943. In 19445, he spent 7 months in the US commissioned by the Swedish Health Board. This started friendships with leading colleagues and scientists. With time, JW fostered a worldwide network of contacts and became a most influential international star. But this was just the beginning. The book follows Waldenstrm's remarkable career including his description of chronic active hepatitis as a new disease, his introduction of nuclear medicine in Sweden, his pioneering of the concept of the concept of poly- and monoclonal gammopathies, and many more highly significant achievements. His legacy is emphasized by Waldenstrm lectures, Waldenstrm Prizes, and by the International Waldenstrms Macroglobulinemia Foundation, IWMF, and the Bing Center for Waldenstrms macroglobulinemia at the Dana Farber Institute of Cancer Institute of the Harvard University in Boston. And now, not least, by this comprehensive biography.
Bibliography, etc. Note
References -- 6 Two New Diseases -- 6.1 Uppsala, A Mecca of Physical Chemistry -- 6.2 The Svedberg and the Ultracentrifuge -- 6.3 Electrophoresis and Arne Tiselius -- 6.4 Purpura Hyperglobilinemia -- 6.5 Macroglobulinemia -- References -- 7 Exploring Medical Science in Wartime America -- 7.1 Through Mined Waters to New York City -- 7.2 Exploring Science in New York City -- 7.3 Boston, "The Medical Capital of America" -- 7.4 Washington University in St. Louis -- 7.5 The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis -- 7.6 The Mayo Clinic in Rochester -- 7.7 Final Comments -- References
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Intro
Foreword by Robert A. Kyle
Foreword by Giampaolo Merlini
Preface
References
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 A Family of Pioneers
References
2 Childhood in Stockholm and Student Years in Uppsala
References
3 The Red Urine Story
3.1 A Diagnostic Triumph
3.2 The First Publication
3.3 Hans Fischer in Munich
3.4 In Munich with a Rockefeller Stipend
3.5 Back in Sweden
3.6 The Doctoral Thesis
References
4 Letters to a Special Friend
Reference
5 Assistant Professor in Uppsala
5.1 Early Hematology Research
5.2 The Growing Family

8 Turbulent Final Years in Uppsala
8.1 Selecting a New Professor and Chairman
8.2 The Winner in Uppsala
8.3 The "Looser"
References
9 "The Great Faculty" in Lund
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Pathology and Bacteriology
9.3 Anatomy and Histology
9.4 Physiology, Medical Chemistry, and Pharmacology
9.5 The Department of Medicine
References
10 Malmö General Hospital-MAS
10.1 The Early Years
10.2 The Next Generation
10.3 Medicine
References
11 Arrival in Malmö
11.1 The Department of Medicine
11.2 Department of Surgery
11.3 Obstetrics and Gynecology

11.4 Orthopedic Surgery
11.5 Pathology and Bacteriology
References
12 Autoimmune Hepatitis
12.1 The German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases-DGVS
12.2 The 15th Congress of the DGVS
12.3 A New Liver Disease
References
13 A Charismatic Leader
13.1 The Commander-in-Chief
13.2 The Early Team
13.3 New Routines
13.4 Exciting the Medical Students
References
14 The Carcinoid Syndrome
14.1 The Discovery
14.2 Intestinal Carcinoid
14.3 A Meeting in Malmö
14.4 Clinical Features
14.5 From Bedside to the Bench

14.6 Recent Contributions in the Carcinoid Syndrome
References
15 Beginning of a Golden Age
15.1 The New Wing
15.2 Radiology
15.3 Pathology
15.4 The First Ph.D. Students
15.5 Private Life
References
16 Gammopathies-Jewel in the Crown
16.1 A New Family
16.2 The Harvey Lecture "Gammopathies"
16.3 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Gammopathy
16.4 Epidemiology of Gammopathies
16.5 The Värmland Study
16.6 Genetics of Monoclonal IgM
16.7 MGUS, SMM, and MM
16.8 Familial Autoimmunity
References
17 Porphyria Research from Malmö
17.1 Introduction

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