Stone, Alan

Alan T. Stone, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland... 

The production of this book has been the outcome of many hours of discussions over the years. The two coauthors have learned a great deal from each other as well as from our many colleagues, students, and friends. An incomplete list of the most important people to whom we owe debts of gratitude would include Mike Barcelona, Michael Elovitz, Bruce Faust, Chad Jafvert, Karen Marley, Gary Peyton, Frank Scully, Alan Stone, Paul Tratnyek, Lee Wolfe, Ollie Zafiriou, and Richard Zepp. Invaluable help with the manuscript was provided by Jean Clarke, Tori Corkery, Jennifer Nevius, and Heather Walsh. Finally, special thanks are due to the students of Environmental Studies 351 at the University of Illinois, who have provided indispensable suggestions about the subject matter of this book over the years. 

The discovery that inhaling ethers could make a patient insensitive to pain revolutionized the practice of medicine. Inset A model of isoflurane, CF3CHCIOCHF2, a halogenated ether widely used as an inhalation anesthetic in both human and veterinary medicine. (Alan Levenson/Stone/Getty Images)... 

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