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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Side ix
... death in England , at Oxford , in 1919 . That would be a tough competition . Most of Osier's admirers were con- tent to claim that he had merely been their era's most famous , most be- loved , and most influential physician . These were ...
... death in England , at Oxford , in 1919 . That would be a tough competition . Most of Osier's admirers were con- tent to claim that he had merely been their era's most famous , most be- loved , and most influential physician . These were ...
Side x
... death . Osier had the best of two medical worlds , American and British , as patients and friends , and he never forgot his Canadian origins either . Everyone knew Osier , and almost everyone loved him . A few dis- ciples literally ...
... death . Osier had the best of two medical worlds , American and British , as patients and friends , and he never forgot his Canadian origins either . Everyone knew Osier , and almost everyone loved him . A few dis- ciples literally ...
Side xii
... death , the quest for salvation , and the forms of immortality . Once I had decided that a new narration of Osier's life was apt to be interesting and illuminating , it did not particularly matter to me how he turned out as a human ...
... death , the quest for salvation , and the forms of immortality . Once I had decided that a new narration of Osier's life was apt to be interesting and illuminating , it did not particularly matter to me how he turned out as a human ...
Side xiii
... death of Osier's reputation . He lived a magnificent , epic , important , and more than slightly saintly life . For the most part , Osier ' revisionism ' does not work . Even a splendidly Victorian sex scandal , celebrated in oral Osier ...
... death of Osier's reputation . He lived a magnificent , epic , important , and more than slightly saintly life . For the most part , Osier ' revisionism ' does not work . Even a splendidly Victorian sex scandal , celebrated in oral Osier ...
Side 9
... death in port in 1828 at the hands of naval surgeons . He was accidentally struck on the head with a crowbar and a few days later was diagnosed as having inflamed lungs . To draw off the inflammation , the doctors opened a vein and bled ...
... death in port in 1828 at the hands of naval surgeons . He was accidentally struck on the head with a crowbar and a few days later was diagnosed as having inflamed lungs . To draw off the inflammation , the doctors opened a vein and bled ...
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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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