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Doctors : the biography of medicine /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nuland, Sherwin B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 1988.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Physicians > Biography.
Medicine > History.
History of Medicine.
Physicians.
Medicine.
Geneeskunde.
Geschichte
Medicine > History
Physicians > Biography
Biographies.
Biography.
History.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • The totem of medicine: Hippocrates
  • The paradox of Pergamon: Galen
  • The reawaken: Andread Vesalius and the Renaissance of Medicine
  • The gentle surgeon: Ambrose Pare
  • "Nature herself must be our advisor": William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood
  • The new medicine: The anatomical concept of Giovanni Morgagni
  • "Why the leaves changed color in the autumn": Surgery, Science, and John Hunter
  • "Without diagnosis, there is no rational treatment": Rene Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope
  • The germ theory before germs: The enigma of Ignac Semmelweis
  • Surgery without pain: the origins of general anesthesia
  • The fundamental unit of life: Sick cells, microscopes, and Rudolf Virchow
  • :To tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit: Joseph Lister's antiseptic surgery
  • Medical science comes to America: William Stewart Halsted of Johns Hopkins
  • A triumph of twentieth-century medicine: Helen Taussig and the Blue-Baby operation
  • New Hearts for old: the story of Transplantation.