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PublisherKodansha America, Incorporated

ISBN-104770023553

ISBN-139784770023551

eBay Product ID (ePID)45410427

Product Key Features

Book TitleDr. Noguchi's Journey : Alife of Medical Search and Discovery

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicMedical

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorPeter Durfee, Atsushi Kita

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight21.6 Oz

Item Length6.1 in

Item Width9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-044366

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"... A well-rounded picture of the short, intense life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures." -Rafu Shimpo"The inspiring story of Hideyo Noguchi's rise from poor farm boy to famous medical pioneer is ...[a] fine biography." -The Asahi Herald"The light and darkness in Noguchi are given equal emphasis, in a rounded picture of the short, intense, and not uncontroversial life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures." -Japan Today, "... A well-rounded picture of the short, intense life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures." -Rafu Shimpo "The inspiring story of Hideyo Noguchi's rise from poor farm boy to famous medical pioneer is ...[a] fine biography." -The Asahi Herald "The light and darkness in Noguchi are given equal emphasis, in a rounded picture of the short, intense, and not uncontroversial life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures." -Japan Today, ..." A well-rounded picture of the short, intense life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures." -Rafu Shimpo "The inspiring story of Hideyo Noguchi's rise from poor farm boy to famous medical pioneer is ...Ýa¨ fine biography." -The Asahi Herald "The light and darkness in Noguchi are given equal emphasis, in a rounded picture of the short, intense, and not uncontroversial life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures." -Japan Today, "... A well-rounded picture of the short, intense life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures." - Rafu Shimpo "The inspiring story of Hideyo Noguchi's rise from poor farm boy to famous medical pioneer is ...[a] fine biography." - The Asahi Herald "The light and darkness in Noguchi are given equal emphasis, in a rounded picture of the short, intense, and not uncontroversial life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures." - Japan Today

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal610/.92 B

SynopsisThe story of Hideyo Noguchi's rise from poor farm boy to famous medical pioneer is a true rags-to-riches story. Born into a family of struggling sharecroppers in a village in the snow country of northern Japan, Noguchi, as a small child, suffered a serious burn which turned his left hand into a useless stump and inflicted permanent scars on his personality. A skillful doctor, however, later operated on this hand, allowing him to use it again to some extent, and inspiring him to pursue a career in medicine himself. Noguchi's extraordinary drive and academic talent propelled him through the hidebound medical training establishment of his own country at record speed, and on to America, to seek his fortune. This too he eventually achieved, thanks to the breakthroughs he made in bacteriological research at the Rockefeller Institute, which included isolating the agent that causes syphilis. His work on other diseases, especially yellow fever, took him as far a field as Ecuador and West Africa, and it was in tropical Africa, doing field research, that he contracted the disease that killed him in his early fifties. Noguchi's struggle to overcome his physical handicap, to make a name for himself as an Asian scientist in a Western-dominated field, and to increase the fund of human knowledge, has given him an exalted status in Japan, where his face is now on the thousand-yen note. But the author of this new biography is at pains to present a true portrait of the man considered by many of his countrymen as something of a saint. Like Albert Schweitzer, Noguchi in his single-mindedness could be a trial for those around him, and this, combined with an amazing carelessness with money that led him to spend almost all his borrowed travel money on food and drink on the eve of his departure for America, made for a less-than-ideal character. As the biographer says in his Preface: "When a person shines so very brightly, surely the shadows he creates will be equally as dark." And here, perhaps for the first time, the light and darkness in Noguchi are given equal emphasis, in a rounded picture of the short, intense, and not uncontroversial life of one of modern medicine's more remarkable figures., Noguchi was the first Japanese medical researcher to make a name for himself in the West. This is the first full portrait of the brilliant, intensely motivated medical pioneer.

LC Classification NumberR626.N6K57 2005