Nuland, Sherwin B.
Doctors : the biography of medicine / Sherwin B. Nuland. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 1988. - xxi, 519 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 491-510.
The Totem of Medicine: Hippocrates -- The Paradox of Pergamon: Galen -- The Reawakening: Andreas Vesalius and the Renaissance of Medicine -- The Gentle Surgeon: Ambroise 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 Fleshy Tabernacle Of The Immortal Spirit": Joseph Lister's Antiseptic Surgery -- Medical Science Comes To America -- William Stewart Halstead Of Johns Hopkins -- A Triumph of Twentieth-Century Medicine -- Helen Taussig and the Blue-Baby Operation -- New Hearts For Old: The Story of Transplantation.
0394551303 : 24.95
88009337
Physicians--Biography.
Medicine--History.
R134 / .N85 1988
610.92/2 B
Doctors : the biography of medicine / Sherwin B. Nuland. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 1988. - xxi, 519 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 491-510.
The Totem of Medicine: Hippocrates -- The Paradox of Pergamon: Galen -- The Reawakening: Andreas Vesalius and the Renaissance of Medicine -- The Gentle Surgeon: Ambroise 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 Fleshy Tabernacle Of The Immortal Spirit": Joseph Lister's Antiseptic Surgery -- Medical Science Comes To America -- William Stewart Halstead Of Johns Hopkins -- A Triumph of Twentieth-Century Medicine -- Helen Taussig and the Blue-Baby Operation -- New Hearts For Old: The Story of Transplantation.
0394551303 : 24.95
88009337
Physicians--Biography.
Medicine--History.
R134 / .N85 1988
610.92/2 B