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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... seemed endless , both during his lifetime and for generations after his 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 ...
... seemed endless , both during his lifetime and for generations after his 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 ...
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... seemed hagiographic . It was certainly un- critical . In time , it was dismissed for not addressing many of the ques- tions historians were beginning to ask about Osier's life and his medical world . The discovery of new primary sources ...
... seemed hagiographic . It was certainly un- critical . In time , it was dismissed for not addressing many of the ques- tions historians were beginning to ask about Osier's life and his medical world . The discovery of new primary sources ...
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... Edward senior recoiled in terror from the stench . He thought the odors themselves might poison him . The experience seemed to him like a descent into Hades.1 The son already had a medical student's apparent equanimity . 4 William Osler.
... Edward senior recoiled in terror from the stench . He thought the odors themselves might poison him . The experience seemed to him like a descent into Hades.1 The son already had a medical student's apparent equanimity . 4 William Osler.
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... seemed more secure , and it did not occur to the theolog that his plans could again be upset . He failed to reckon with his promoters ' belief in Christianity's mission to spread the Gospel and save souls . Instead of holding the easy ...
... seemed more secure , and it did not occur to the theolog that his plans could again be upset . He failed to reckon with his promoters ' belief in Christianity's mission to spread the Gospel and save souls . Instead of holding the easy ...
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... seemed mourning the desolation which reigned on every side . '30 Then Featherstone noticed the sunlight , the glittering snow , the birds and seals and beluga whales , and the farmhouses and English Gentlemen with American Energy 15.
... seemed mourning the desolation which reigned on every side . '30 Then Featherstone noticed the sunlight , the glittering snow , the birds and seals and beluga whales , and the farmhouses and English Gentlemen with American Energy 15.
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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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