Robert B. Taylor
Springer New York
1e druk, 2009
9781441916198
White Coat Tales
Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Specificaties
Paperback, 272 blz.
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Engels
Springer New York |
1e druk, 2009
ISBN13: 9781441916198
Rubricering
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Samenvatting
This collection of intriguing stories offers profound insights into medical history. It highlights what all health professionals should know about the career path they have chosen. Each chapter presents a number of fascinating tales of legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, insightful clinical sayings, famous persons and their illnesses, and epic blunders made by physicians and scientists. The book relates the stories in history to what clinicians do in practice today and is ideal reading for physicians, residents, medical students and all clinicians.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781441916198
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:272
Uitgever:Springer New York
Druk:1
Inhoudsopgave
Heroes, Diseases, and Remedies.- Heroes in Medical History ab[Abstract.- Diseases That Changed History.- Drugs and Other Remedies.- The Heritage and Culture of Medicine.- Medical Words and Phrases.- Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponyms.- Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, Euphemisms, Jargon, and Slang.- Medical Aphorisms.- Memorable Medical Quotations.- Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures.- Famous Persons as Patients.- Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship, and Speculation.- Misadventures: Myths, Misinformation, Blunders, and Wrongdoing.- Now and Future Practice.
