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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... interest to anyone who takes life seriously . William Welch , colleague and fellow medical giant , suggested that Osier's career had been a splendid match of character with situation , an ' almost perfect adaptation of his talents X ...
... interest to anyone who takes life seriously . William Welch , colleague and fellow medical giant , suggested that Osier's career had been a splendid match of character with situation , an ' almost perfect adaptation of his talents X ...
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... interest in biographies of scientists , less in the lives of doctors . Daunted , I turned to more manageable topics and friendlier terrain . Three books later , one of them a study of smallpox in Montreal during Osier's time , I ...
... interest in biographies of scientists , less in the lives of doctors . Daunted , I turned to more manageable topics and friendlier terrain . Three books later , one of them a study of smallpox in Montreal during Osier's time , I ...
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... interest when it came to promotion . Edward senior hoped for the best : ' You are my Son and I do yet hope to see one who will be my pride , who will be able on his own merits , conduct , and situation , independent or without his ...
... interest when it came to promotion . Edward senior hoped for the best : ' You are my Son and I do yet hope to see one who will be my pride , who will be able on his own merits , conduct , and situation , independent or without his ...
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... interests in the Petticoat way . Lady Northesk will do anything in her power and I can have Lady Grey's ( sister in law of the Earl Grey ) by asking thru ' my very good friend Mr. Lake . Every thing that has yet been done for me has ...
... interests in the Petticoat way . Lady Northesk will do anything in her power and I can have Lady Grey's ( sister in law of the Earl Grey ) by asking thru ' my very good friend Mr. Lake . Every thing that has yet been done for me has ...
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... interest - free . While intending to minister to souls , he also found himself treating , or appearing to treat , bodies . Early in his ministry he took some store - bought medicine to a man said to be on his deathbed , persuaded the ...
... interest - free . While intending to minister to souls , he also found himself treating , or appearing to treat , bodies . Early in his ministry he took some store - bought medicine to a man said to be on his deathbed , persuaded 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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