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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... asking the right question . Osier was an observer and scholar of the natural history of disease , a teacher of the natu- ral history of illness , and a working doctor . He was not an experimental scientist , in the business of making ...
... asking the right question . Osier was an observer and scholar of the natural history of disease , a teacher of the natu- ral history of illness , and a working doctor . He was not an experimental scientist , in the business of making ...
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... asked to treat a lady in a great house , he wandered into the library while waiting for his patient and became oblivious to time and the purpose of his visit . But although Edward Osier never enjoyed the success his fa- ther hoped for ...
... asked to treat a lady in a great house , he wandered into the library while waiting for his patient and became oblivious to time and the purpose of his visit . But although Edward Osier never enjoyed the success his fa- ther hoped for ...
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... asking thru ' my very good friend Mr. Lake . Every thing that has yet been done for me has been done unasked by me and I shall ask nothing till I really want it . I think I am secure of the Admiral's interests should any thing occur on ...
... asking thru ' my very good friend Mr. Lake . Every thing that has yet been done for me has been done unasked by me and I shall ask nothing till I really want it . I think I am secure of the Admiral's interests should any thing occur on ...
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... asked Featherstone if it was not his duty to take up this work on their behalf . By all accounts , especially his own , Featherstone was appalled at the prospect of going to Canada . The thought of going abroad had no appeal to Ellen or ...
... asked Featherstone if it was not his duty to take up this work on their behalf . By all accounts , especially his own , Featherstone was appalled at the prospect of going to Canada . The thought of going abroad had no appeal to Ellen or ...
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... asked to be venesected , or bled , to relieve the congestions of winter , a custom analogous to spring cleaning ... asking well - to - do patients to con- tribute to a fund for building local schools . When physicians came to the ...
... asked to be venesected , or bled , to relieve the congestions of winter , a custom analogous to spring cleaning ... asking well - to - do patients to con- tribute to a fund for building local schools . When physicians came to the ...
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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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