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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... told me there was little 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 ...
... told me there was little 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 ...
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... late affliction , ' he told his mother after Edward Osier's death , has been and is the hope that in a very little while we shall be where there is no partings . I could not bear to think of English Gentlemen with American Energy 11.
... late affliction , ' he told his mother after Edward Osier's death , has been and is the hope that in a very little while we shall be where there is no partings . I could not bear to think of English Gentlemen with American Energy 11.
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... told me I was a sin- ner till Mr. Osier came here ' ? The man's sins might have included follow- ing after the itinerant Methodist preachers who supplied the main compe- tition for the Church of England in Upper Canada . ' The ...
... told me I was a sin- ner till Mr. Osier came here ' ? The man's sins might have included follow- ing after the itinerant Methodist preachers who supplied the main compe- tition for the Church of England in Upper Canada . ' The ...
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... told her parents that I saw no immediate danger , prescribed a few simple remedies , made the girl take some nourishment , and left , promising to return in the evening ... I found the girl up sitting by the fire , and in a few days she ...
... told her parents that I saw no immediate danger , prescribed a few simple remedies , made the girl take some nourishment , and left , promising to return in the evening ... I found the girl up sitting by the fire , and in a few days she ...
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... told Ellen.48 On the other hand , he was repelled by the emotionalism of those to whom he was theologically closest , the Methodists . Their revival or camp meetings unleashed animal feelings , mere passions , he thought : ' Let me ...
... told Ellen.48 On the other hand , he was repelled by the emotionalism of those to whom he was theologically closest , the Methodists . Their revival or camp meetings unleashed animal feelings , mere passions , he thought : ' Let me ...
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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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