William Osler: A Life in MedicineOxford University Press, 18. nov. 1999 - 632 sider William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. 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 supremely 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. It was perhaps his legendary compassion that elevated his healing talents to an art form and attracted to his private practice students, colleagues, poets (Walt Whitman for example) politicians, royalty, and nameless ordinary people with extraordinary conditions. William Osler's life lucidly illuminates the times in which he lived. 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, drawing on many new sources and offering new interpretations, William Osler: A Life in Medicine brings to life both a fascinating man and the formative age of twentieth-century medicine. It is a classic biography of a classic life, both authoritative and highly readable. |
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... American Energy 3 2 Learning to See : Student Years 36 3 The Baby Professor 80 4 The Best Men : Philadelphia 122 5 Starting at Johns Hopkins 168 6 We All Worship Him 208 7 The Great American Doctor 259 8 Leaving America 308 9 A ...
... American Energy 3 2 Learning to See : Student Years 36 3 The Baby Professor 80 4 The Best Men : Philadelphia 122 5 Starting at Johns Hopkins 168 6 We All Worship Him 208 7 The Great American Doctor 259 8 Leaving America 308 9 A ...
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... , set the stage for William's life and mission . As well , like most of us , he grew up to re- semble and echo the people whose genes he bore . Edward Osier , William's grandfather , born in 1758 , 1 English Gentlemen with American Energy.
... , set the stage for William's life and mission . As well , like most of us , he grew up to re- semble and echo the people whose genes he bore . Edward Osier , William's grandfather , born in 1758 , 1 English Gentlemen with American Energy.
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... American Civil War fever , parading through Dundas with other lads behind a single - starred bonnie - blue flag , singing ' Maryland ! My Mary- land ' ( ' Avenge the patriotic gore / That flecked the streets of Baltimore / And be the ...
... American Civil War fever , parading through Dundas with other lads behind a single - starred bonnie - blue flag , singing ' Maryland ! My Mary- land ' ( ' Avenge the patriotic gore / That flecked the streets of Baltimore / And be the ...
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... American energy . ' The Osier women were not expected to have careers and did not . The men broke a popular stereotype about ministers ' children . As a Toronto rhymester once put it , You have heard the remark in different Places That ...
... American energy . ' The Osier women were not expected to have careers and did not . The men broke a popular stereotype about ministers ' children . As a Toronto rhymester once put it , You have heard the remark in different Places That ...
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... American . ” Traveling through New York and Bos- ton , the sisters were a little shocked by assertive American women and American ways , but when they crossed the border at Niagara and reached Dundas , Canada West , they were suddenly ...
... American . ” Traveling through New York and Bos- ton , the sisters were a little shocked by assertive American women and American ways , but when they crossed the border at Niagara and reached Dundas , Canada West , they were suddenly ...
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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 |
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