Gareth Lloyd
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199295746
- eISBN:
- 9780191711701
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295746.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
After retiring from the itinerancy in 1756, Charles Wesley exercised a localized preaching and pastoral ministry in Bristol, and then from 1771, in London. He also established himself as the foremost ...
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After retiring from the itinerancy in 1756, Charles Wesley exercised a localized preaching and pastoral ministry in Bristol, and then from 1771, in London. He also established himself as the foremost member of an unofficial pro‐Anglican Church‐Methodist party that included some of the wealthiest and most influential lay people in the movement. The strength of this pro‐Anglican feeling, which has often been ignored by Methodist scholarship, can be seen to best effect by close examination of local reactions in London and Yorkshire to the Norwich sacramental dispute of 1760.Less
After retiring from the itinerancy in 1756, Charles Wesley exercised a localized preaching and pastoral ministry in Bristol, and then from 1771, in London. He also established himself as the foremost member of an unofficial pro‐Anglican Church‐Methodist party that included some of the wealthiest and most influential lay people in the movement. The strength of this pro‐Anglican feeling, which has often been ignored by Methodist scholarship, can be seen to best effect by close examination of local reactions in London and Yorkshire to the Norwich sacramental dispute of 1760.
Kersten T. Hall
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- March 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780192855381
- eISBN:
- 9780191945571
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192855381.003.0004
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics, Soft Matter / Biological Physics
Boston clinician Elliott Joslin likened the power of insulin with the vision of Ezekiel, the Old Testament prophet who saw a valley of dry bones rise up and be restored to life. Banting faced claims ...
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Boston clinician Elliott Joslin likened the power of insulin with the vision of Ezekiel, the Old Testament prophet who saw a valley of dry bones rise up and be restored to life. Banting faced claims by John Murlin and Ernest Scott of their prior discovery of insulin. Furthermore, while insulin saved patients’ lives, further research showed it could also cause hypoglycaemic shock. This discovery led the University of Toronto to take the controversial step of filing a patent on insulin to ensure regulation of its production. This chapter explores the many important social and political issues that arose in the wake of the new drug’s success, including questions of who should pay for insulin and who should be responsible for its administration.Less
Boston clinician Elliott Joslin likened the power of insulin with the vision of Ezekiel, the Old Testament prophet who saw a valley of dry bones rise up and be restored to life. Banting faced claims by John Murlin and Ernest Scott of their prior discovery of insulin. Furthermore, while insulin saved patients’ lives, further research showed it could also cause hypoglycaemic shock. This discovery led the University of Toronto to take the controversial step of filing a patent on insulin to ensure regulation of its production. This chapter explores the many important social and political issues that arose in the wake of the new drug’s success, including questions of who should pay for insulin and who should be responsible for its administration.
Kersten T. Hall
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- March 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780192855381
- eISBN:
- 9780191945571
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192855381.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics, Soft Matter / Biological Physics
Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes was an inevitable death sentence. Little wonder then that when insulin was first used to treat patients in the early 1920s, diabetes ...
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Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes was an inevitable death sentence. Little wonder then that when insulin was first used to treat patients in the early 1920s, diabetes specialist Elliott Joslin likened its power to the ‘Vision of Ezekiel’, the Old Testament prophet who is said to have seen a valley of dry bones rise up and be restored to life. Despite its life-saving power, however, little was known about the chemical nature of insulin, with one clinician describing it as being simply ‘thick brown muck’. Just over half a century later, insulin was again causing excitement when it became the first pharmaceutical to be produced using genetic engineering, making biotech company Genentech founders multimillionaires after a spectacular flotation on Wall Street. This book tells the stories of those involved in this act of modern-day alchemy. What emerges are sometimes monstrous egos, toxic career rivalries, and a few unsung heroes, such as the two little-known scientists whose work on wool fibres proved to be crucial not only in unravelling insulin but also in ushering in a revolution in biology. Perhaps most importantly of all, with science having become so prominent in all our lives during the past year, the story of insulin has lessons for us all about what technology can—and perhaps more importantly—cannot do for us.Less
Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes was an inevitable death sentence. Little wonder then that when insulin was first used to treat patients in the early 1920s, diabetes specialist Elliott Joslin likened its power to the ‘Vision of Ezekiel’, the Old Testament prophet who is said to have seen a valley of dry bones rise up and be restored to life. Despite its life-saving power, however, little was known about the chemical nature of insulin, with one clinician describing it as being simply ‘thick brown muck’. Just over half a century later, insulin was again causing excitement when it became the first pharmaceutical to be produced using genetic engineering, making biotech company Genentech founders multimillionaires after a spectacular flotation on Wall Street. This book tells the stories of those involved in this act of modern-day alchemy. What emerges are sometimes monstrous egos, toxic career rivalries, and a few unsung heroes, such as the two little-known scientists whose work on wool fibres proved to be crucial not only in unravelling insulin but also in ushering in a revolution in biology. Perhaps most importantly of all, with science having become so prominent in all our lives during the past year, the story of insulin has lessons for us all about what technology can—and perhaps more importantly—cannot do for us.
