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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... Perhaps also sublimating inner nausea , he described what it was like to work at Brookes's : On the second day of my attendance , I entered the dissecting room for the first time . The first object which met my view was the body of an ...
... Perhaps also sublimating inner nausea , he described what it was like to work at Brookes's : On the second day of my attendance , I entered the dissecting room for the first time . The first object which met my view was the body of an ...
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... perhaps watching over us , soothing our wounded minds and whilst we are mourning he is inexpressably happy . Dearest Mother how thankful we ought to feel for the hope that we shall meet in Heaven an unbroken family . Our Father having ...
... perhaps watching over us , soothing our wounded minds and whilst we are mourning he is inexpressably happy . Dearest Mother how thankful we ought to feel for the hope that we shall meet in Heaven an unbroken family . Our Father having ...
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... perhaps offer ' confidence and a few simple medicines . ' He often returned exhausted , desperate for rest , not see- ing how it would come this side of the grave . He pleaded with the bishop of Toronto , John Strachan , to put more ...
... perhaps offer ' confidence and a few simple medicines . ' He often returned exhausted , desperate for rest , not see- ing how it would come this side of the grave . He pleaded with the bishop of Toronto , John Strachan , to put more ...
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... perhaps about his tendency to grumble , but otherwise offered only praise . He reported that Osier was ' a Treasure , indefatigable in his labors and journeys , judicious in his arrangements , frank , kind , and conciliatory in his ...
... perhaps about his tendency to grumble , but otherwise offered only praise . He reported that Osier was ' a Treasure , indefatigable in his labors and journeys , judicious in his arrangements , frank , kind , and conciliatory in his ...
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... perhaps rising to high position in the navy or serving the church without the fatigue and obscurity he had met in Canada . He had no desire , he told a daughter , that a son of his should become ' a misunderstood poorly paid Backwoods ...
... perhaps rising to high position in the navy or serving the church without the fatigue and obscurity he had met in Canada . He had no desire , he told a daughter , that a son of his should become ' a misunderstood poorly paid Backwoods ...
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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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