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Doctors : the biography of medicine /

by Nuland, Sherwin B.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Knopf, 1988Edition: 1st ed.Description: xxi, 519 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0394551303 :.Subject(s): Physicians -- Biography | Medicine -- History
Contents:
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.
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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.

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