TY - JOUR KW - History, 19th Century KW - History, 20th Century KW - leprosy KW - Mycobacterium leprae AU - Mange P F AB -
Hansen possessed keen scientific insight and a strong personal character. These qualities were necessary to overcome many obstacles barring the path to his lifetime goal of eradicating leprosy from Norway. This paper is the 1991 winner of the Stephen Wickes Prize in the History of Medicine.
BT - New Jersey medicine : the journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1549260?dopt=Abstract DA - 1992 Feb IS - 2 J2 - N J Med LA - eng N2 -Hansen possessed keen scientific insight and a strong personal character. These qualities were necessary to overcome many obstacles barring the path to his lifetime goal of eradicating leprosy from Norway. This paper is the 1991 winner of the Stephen Wickes Prize in the History of Medicine.
PY - 1992 SP - 118 EP - 21 T2 - New Jersey medicine : the journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey TI - Hansen and his discovery of Mycobacterium leprae. VL - 89 SN - 0885-842X ER -