William Osler: A Life in Medicine

Forsideomslag
Oxford University Press, 2007 - 581 sider
William Osler, who was a brilliant, innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural history of disease, revolutionized the art of practicing medicine at the bedside of his patients. He was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. But much more than a physician, Osler was a fiercely intelligent humanist.
In both his writings and his personal life--and through the prism of the tragedy of the Great War--he embodied the art of living. Indeed, this is a book not only about the evolution of modern medicine, the training of doctors, holism in medical thought, and the doctor-patient relationship, but also about humanism, Victorianism, the Great War, and much else. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, William Osler: A Life in Medicine brings to life both a fascinating man and the formative age of twentieth-century medicine.

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Indhold

1 English Gentlemen with American Energy
3
Student Years
36
3 The Baby Professor
80
Philadelphia
122
5 Starting at Johns Hopkins
168
6 We All Worship Him
208
Illustrations
210
7 The Great American Doctor
259
10 Sir William
369
11 All the Youth and Glory of the Country
402
12 Never Use a Crutch
441
13 Oslers Afterlife
477
Notes and Sources
505
Acknowledgments
557
Illustration Credits
561
Index
563

8 Leaving America
308
9 A Delightful Life and Place
332

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Om forfatteren (2007)

John William Michael Bliss was born in Leamington, Ontario, Canada on January 18, 1941. He graduated from the University of Toronto. He taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 until 2006. He was a historian of Canadian business and politics as well as medicine. He wrote 14 books during his lifetime including A Canadian Millionaire, The Discovery of Insulin, Banting: A Biography, William Osler: A Life in Medicine, and Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery. He was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2016. He died from complications of vasculitis, an inflammatory blood vessel disease, on May 18, 2017 at the age of 76.

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