William Osler: A Life in MedicineUniversity of Toronto Press, 1. apr. 2002 - 624 sider In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This new, definitive biography by Michael Bliss is the first full-scale life of Osler to appear since 1925. An award-winning medical historian, Bliss draws on many untapped sources to recreate Osler's life and medical times for a new generation of readers. Born at Bond Head, north of Toronto, Osler rose from obscurity to become the greatest medical teacher and writer in three countries. At Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as regius professor at Oxford, Osler was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners, for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. His quest was to bring high standards and scientific methods into general practice in the medical world and to give teaching hospitals a solid place in the education of doctors. The publication of his book, The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), established him as the authority of modern medicine, a position he held well into the new century. Osler was revered as the high priest of the advent of twentieth-century medicine. In this fine biography, Michael Bliss animates the epic quality of Osler's life - not only in telling his personal story, but in setting that story against the dramatic backdrop of the coming of modern medicine. Winner of the Jason A. Hannah Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of Canada and the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine |
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... death in England , at Oxford , in 1919 . That would be a tough competition . Most of Osler's admirers were con- tent to claim that he had merely been their era's most famous , most be- loved , and most influential physician . These were ...
... death . Osler had the best of two medical worlds , American and British , as patients and friends , and he never forgot his Canadian origins either . Everyone knew Osler , and almost everyone loved him . A few dis- ciples literally ...
... death , the quest for salvation , and the forms of immortality . Once I had decided that a new narration of Osler's life was apt to be interesting and illuminating , it did not particularly matter to me how he turned out as a human ...
... death of Osler's reputation . He lived a magnificent , epic , important , and more than slightly saintly life . For the most part , Osler ' revisionism ' does not work . Even a splendidly Victorian sex scandal , celebrated in oral Osler ...
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English Gentlemen with American Energy | 3 |
Learning to See Student Years | 36 |
The Baby Professor | 80 |
The Best Men Philadelphia | 122 |
Starting at Johns Hopkins | 168 |
We All Worship Him | 208 |
The Great American Doctor | 261 |
Leaving America | 310 |
Sir William | 371 |
All the Youth and Glory of the Country | 404 |
Never Use a Crutch | 443 |
Oslers Afterlife | 479 |
Notes and Sources | 507 |
Acknowledgments | 559 |
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