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William Osler : A Life in Medicine by Michael Bliss (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195123468
ISBN-139780195123463
eBay Product ID (ePID)1012223
Product Key Features
Book TitleWilliam Osler : Alife in Medicine
Number of Pages632 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicMedical, History, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Medical
AuthorMichael Bliss
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.1 in
Item Weight40.8 Oz
Item Length6.6 in
Item Width9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-032066
Dewey Edition21
Reviews . . . a brilliant and . . . balanced account of Osler's extraordinary life . . . It will be an undoubted classic for many years to come., "A dutiful social historian, Bliss inquires into Osler's sensitivity to issues of ethnicity, class, and gender." -- Ronald L. Numbers,Science "A well-told, enjoyable, enlightening--and much needed-- biography of a giant of medical practice and education...A first-rate biography of a towering medical figure." --Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "Medical historian Bliss has written the authoritative modern biography of the 19-century Canadian physician William Osler...This volume replaces Harvey Cushing's two volume tribute,The Life of William Osler(1956) as the definitive text in the field. Highly recommended...essential."--LibraryJournal(starred review) "An excellent, readable biography written by a true scholar of medical history who knows his man and his material intimately."--Journal of the American Medical Association, "A dutiful social historian, Bliss inquires into Osler's sensitivity to issues of ethnicity, class, and gender." -- Ronald L. Numbers, Science"A well-told, enjoyable, enlightening--and much needed-- biography of a giant of medical practice and education...A first-rate biography of a towering medical figure." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Medical historian Bliss has written the authoritative modern biography of the 19-century Canadian physician William Osler...This volume replaces Harvey Cushing's two volume tribute, The Life of William Osler (1956) as the definitive text in the field. Highly recommended...essential."--Library Journal (starred review)"An excellent, readable biography written by a true scholar of medical history who knows his man and his material intimately."--Journal of the American Medical Association, "A dutiful social historian, Bliss inquires into Osler's sensitivity to issues of ethnicity, class, and gender." -- Ronald L. Numbers, Science "A well-told, enjoyable, enlightening--and much needed-- biography of a giant of medical practice and education...A first-rate biography of a towering medical figure." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Medical historian Bliss has written the authoritative modern biography of the 19-century Canadian physician William Osler...This volume replaces Harvey Cushing's two volume tribute, The Life of William Osler (1956) as the definitive text in the field. Highly recommended...essential."--Library Journal (starred review) "An excellent, readable biography written by a true scholar of medical history who knows his man and his material intimately."--Journal of the American Medical Association
Dewey Decimal610/.92 B
SynopsisWilliam Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler, who was a brilliant, innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural history of disease, revolutionized the art of practicing medicine at the bedside of his patients. He was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. But much more than a physician, Osler was a supremely intelligent humanist. In both his writings and his personal life, and through the prism of the tragedy of the Great War, he embodied the art of living. It was perhaps his legendary compassion that elevated his healing talents to an art form and attracted to his private practice students, colleagues, poets (Walt Whitman for example) politicians, royalty, and nameless ordinary people with extraordinary conditions. William Osler's life lucidly illuminates the times in which he lived. Indeed, this is a book not only about the evolution of modern medicine, the training of doctors, holism in medical thought, and the doctor-patient relationship, but also about humanism, Victorianism, the Great War, and much else. Meticulously researched, drawing on many new sources and offering new interpretations, William Osler: A Life in Medicine brings to life both a fascinating man and the formative age of twentieth-century medicine. It is a classic biography of a classic life, both authoritative and highly readable., William Osler, who was a brilliant, innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural history of disease, revolutionized the art of practicing medicine at the bedside of his patients. He was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. But much more than a physician, Osler was a fiercely intellegent humanist. In both his writings and his personal lifeand through the prism of the tragedy of the Great Warhe embodied the art of living. Indeed, this is a book not only about the evolution of modern medicine, the training of doctors, holism in medical thought, and the doctor-patient relationship, but also about humanism, Victorianism, the Great War, and much else. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, William Osler: A Life in Medicine brings to life both a fascinating man and the formative age of twentieth-century medicine.
LC Classification NumberR134.B55 1999
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- Dec 04, 2017
Best recent Osler biography
Cushing wrote the definitive Osler biography, until Bliss's version!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
