William Osler : a life in medicine / Michael Bliss
- Bib ID:
- 399289
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- Author:
- Bliss, Michael
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
- xiv, 581 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195123468
- Summary:
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"In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This new, definitive biography by Michael Bliss is the first full-scale life of Osler to appear since 1925. Bliss draws on many untapped sources to recreate Osler's life and medical times for a new generation of readers."--BOOK JACKET. "Born at Bond Head, north of Toronto, Osler rose from obscurity to become the greatest medical teacher and writer in three countries. At Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as regius professor at Oxford, Osler was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners, for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. His quest was to bring high standards and scientific methods into general practice in the medical world and to give teaching hospitals a solid place in the education of doctors."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Preface: On Doing an Osler Autopsy ix
- 1 English Gentlemen with American Energy 3
- 2 Learning to See: Student Years 36
- 3 The Baby Professor 80
- 4 The Best Men: Philadelphia 122
- 5 Starting at Johns Hopkins 168
- 6 We All Worship Him 208
- 7 The Great American Doctor 259
- 8 Leaving America 308
- 9 A Delightful Life and Place 332
- 10 Sir William 369
- 11 All the Youth and Glory of the Country 402
- 12 Never Use a Crutch 441
- 13 Osler's Afterlife 477
- Notes and Sources 505
- Acknowledgments 557
- Illustration Credits 561
- Index 563.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Life in medicine
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