Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
ISBN-13:
9780679760092
ISBN-10:
0679760091
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Sherwin B. Nuland
Publication date:
1995
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format:
Paperback
546 pages
Category:
Cultural & Regional
,
Medical
,
Professionals & Academics
,
History & Philosophy
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ISBN-13:
9780679760092
ISBN-10:
0679760091
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Sherwin B. Nuland
Publication date:
1995
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format:
Paperback
546 pages
Category:
Cultural & Regional
,
Medical
,
Professionals & Academics
,
History & Philosophy
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Doctors: The Biography of Medicine (ISBN-13: 9780679760092 and ISBN-10: 0679760091), written by authors
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From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way.
How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
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