Overview
- Explores the lives of two high-achieving medical and scientific sisters
- Includes a unique narrative on the place of radiology and electrotherapy in World War I, from the perspective of women’s hospitals
- Traces the entry of women into radiology and sets this alongside the parallel battles of women to gain entry to science and engineering
Part of the book series: Springer Biographies (SPRINGERBIOGS)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Reviews
“The book is well written … . It includes great depictions of foreign bodies, fractures and diseased bone pathology, and I enjoyed learning how x-rays were used to treat Graves’ disease, ulcers and ringworm. … I’d recommend this book to scholars and imaging aficionados looking for a deeper historical perspective on the imaging sciences.” (Jennifer J. Alexander, ASRT Scanner, June-July, 2023)
“This is a comprehensive, well referenced biography of the Stoney sisters. … The sisters were remarkable women who deserve to be better remembered and this scholarly, well researched biography is a tribute to their important legacy and the authors deserve to be congratulated for this fine contribution to the radiology history literature.” (Arpan K Banerjee, RAD Magazine, March, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Francis Duck igraduated in Physics from Nottingham University and joined the Medical Physics Department at University College Hospital, London, in 1966, initiating his lifelong career in medical ultrasound. This took him to Canada and the United States before returning to the United Kingdom to settle in Bath as a medical physicist in the National Health Service. Here, with colleagues from the Physics Department at the University of Bath, he pioneered several innovative developments in ultrasound scanning and also took a leading role in setting international standards for its safe medical use. More recently he has developed his interest in the history of science, and particularly the interface between physics and medicine, culminating in his monograph Physicists and Physicians, which traces three centuries of the contributions from physicists and engineers to medicine. In 2007 he was awarded the MBE for services to health care. He was formerly visiting professor at the University of Bath.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Edith and Florence Stoney, Sisters in Radiology
Authors: Adrian Thomas, Francis Duck
Series Title: Springer Biographies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16561-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16560-4Published: 15 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16563-5Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16561-1Published: 01 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-0613
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 353
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Imaging / Radiology, History of Medicine