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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... heart- felt , less self - interested or promotional than I had anticipated . Osier shone partly by comparison with many of his colleagues , but it became clear to me that he was a man who would have stood out , did stand out , in any ...
... heart- felt , less self - interested or promotional than I had anticipated . Osier shone partly by comparison with many of his colleagues , but it became clear to me that he was a man who would have stood out , did stand out , in any ...
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... heart is so deceitful that you cannot trust it , sometimes you feel a something like hope , and then again all is dark , and you think you must be a hypocrite that you are not sincere . You look all around for comfort but comfort is not ...
... heart is so deceitful that you cannot trust it , sometimes you feel a something like hope , and then again all is dark , and you think you must be a hypocrite that you are not sincere . You look all around for comfort but comfort is not ...
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... heart sank again at the sight of raw wood strewn everywhere in the hotel yard . ' I can't say I enjoy my solitude at the inn , ' she wrote to a sister , ' but I bear it patiently as I can ... Beseech the Lord for me , my dear Lizzy ...
... heart sank again at the sight of raw wood strewn everywhere in the hotel yard . ' I can't say I enjoy my solitude at the inn , ' she wrote to a sister , ' but I bear it patiently as I can ... Beseech the Lord for me , my dear Lizzy ...
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... heart ' - was also true of him . At least four of the Osier offspring ( Edward remained a gray sheep and Frank became a black one ) were intensely hard - working , ambitious , and men of obvious good breeding who went on to remarkable ...
... heart ' - was also true of him . At least four of the Osier offspring ( Edward remained a gray sheep and Frank became a black one ) were intensely hard - working , ambitious , and men of obvious good breeding who went on to remarkable ...
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... heart longs to see you walking in the paths of holiness you would I think strive to do well but there is One who loves you with a love far stronger than mine who gave Himself to die for you . He is ' the Way , the Truth , and the Life ...
... heart longs to see you walking in the paths of holiness you would I think strive to do well but there is One who loves you with a love far stronger than mine who gave Himself to die for you . He is ' the Way , the Truth , and the Life ...
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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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