Doctors: the biography of medicine
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Published:
New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Format:
Book
Edition:
Second Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc:
xxi, 519 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Status:
MCPLD Central Non-Fiction
610.6952 N969d
Description
F rom the author of How We Die , t he 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.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780679760092, 0679760091
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-510) and index.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Nuland, S. B. (1995). Doctors: the biography of medicine. Second Vintage Books edition. New York, Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nuland, Sherwin B. 1995. Doctors: The Biography of Medicine. New York, Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Nuland, Sherwin B, Doctors: The Biography of Medicine. New York, Vintage Books, 1995.
MLA Citation (style guide)Nuland, Sherwin B. Doctors: The Biography of Medicine. Second Vintage Books edition. New York, Vintage Books, 1995.
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