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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... delightful in literature than biography ? And yet , how uncertain and treacherous is the account which any man can give of another's life . SIR WILLIAM OSLER This page intentionally left blank ONE English Gentlemen with American.
... delightful in literature than biography ? And yet , how uncertain and treacherous is the account which any man can give of another's life . SIR WILLIAM OSLER This page intentionally left blank ONE English Gentlemen with American.
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... give up all my prospects to be like him . Should I ever be religious I think I should not be lukewarm.'19 Featherstone had to set a future course in 1832 , a year of crisis in his country's life and in his own . Britain was experiencing ...
... give up all my prospects to be like him . Should I ever be religious I think I should not be lukewarm.'19 Featherstone had to set a future course in 1832 , a year of crisis in his country's life and in his own . Britain was experiencing ...
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... give earnest heed to make our calling and election sure.22 By 1833 Featherstone had decided to become a minister of the Church of England . He boned up on Greek and Latin privately and then enrolled at St Catharine's Hall , Cambridge ...
... give earnest heed to make our calling and election sure.22 By 1833 Featherstone had decided to become a minister of the Church of England . He boned up on Greek and Latin privately and then enrolled at St Catharine's Hall , Cambridge ...
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... give him a holiday for a little while - but my own health has been graciously spared ... I may almost say I never knew fatigue till I came to Canada.41 At the new Trinity Church in Bond Head , Ellen Osier became the effec- tive ...
... give him a holiday for a little while - but my own health has been graciously spared ... I may almost say I never knew fatigue till I came to Canada.41 At the new Trinity Church in Bond Head , Ellen Osier became the effec- tive ...
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... give the child the medicine till she had consulted me . An- other came to me with a bad leg , another with his arm , two women came to have their teeth drawn & c . Tis of no use for me to plead ignorance . They shake their heads and say ...
... give the child the medicine till she had consulted me . An- other came to me with a bad leg , another with his arm , two women came to have their teeth drawn & c . Tis of no use for me to plead ignorance . They shake their heads and say ...
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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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