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- Fixing my gaze : a scientist's journey into seeing in three dimensions / by Barry, Susan R.(CARDINAL)495594;
MARCIVE 09/01/10Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-236) and index.Stereoblind -- Mixed-up beginnings -- School crossings -- Knowing where to look -- Fixing my gaze -- The space between -- When two eyes see as one -- Nature and nurture -- Vision and revision."When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view of the city that she had witnessed many times in the past but now saw in an astonishingly new way. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D. With each glance, she experienced the deliriously novel sense of immersion in a three dimensional world. Barry had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she was seeing Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life" --Cover, p. 2.- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Barry, Susan R.; Strabismus; Depth perception.; Behavioral optometry.; Visual training.; Neurobiologists;
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- Death to beauty : the transformative history of botox / by Helveston, Eugene M.,1934-author.(CARDINAL)887797;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index.Lostridium botulinum -- The world's deadliest poison -- The canning industry -- An outbreak in the United States -- A rare and deadly disease -- World War II sets the stage -- Camp detrick : US Army biological warfare laboratories -- Fort detrick and the CIA -- The government steps in -- Edward Schantz testifies -- Back in Madison -- Dr. Alan B. Scott -- Progress in the lab -- First injection in a primate -- First injection in a human -- Joining the team -- Manufacturing begins -- Marketing and selling a new drug -- Botox and beauty -- Dermatology opens the floodgates -- Botox and neurology -- The legacy -- Epilogue."In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes botulism, culminating in a drug that eventually became known as Botox. In Death to Beauty, Eugene M. Helveston, MD, follows the unlikely story of botulism's 1817 discovery in contaminated German sausages, to its use in military and research facilities, to Scott, an ophthalmologist who aimed to safely use the drug in humans. Scott struggled alone as an unknown in the pharmaceutical industry, searching for clinical trial financing and FDA approval, which he achieved at a fraction of the billions big pharma usually spends to bring a drug to market. Eventually, the company Allergan bought him out, capitalizing on the possibilities for cosmetic uses. Scott's formula was renamed "Botox" and reached annual sales in the billions. After the sale, Scott received no further compensation from Botox sales and remained the same unassuming man. A fascinating walk through the intricate history of how the world's deadliest toxin starting as a treatment for crossed eyes became a routine tool for the cosmetic industry, Death to Beauty will make you rethink success, beauty, and deadly bacteria."--- Subjects: Informational works.; Botulinum toxin; Cosmetics industry.; Surgery, Plastic.; Botulism.;
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- Is it in your genes : the influence on common disorders and diseases that affect you and your family. by Reilly, Philip,1947-(CARDINAL)753217;
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- Subjects: Medical genetics;
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