On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom

On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom / by Robert B. Taylor.

Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine’s “giants”—such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabet...

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Main Author: Taylor, Robert B. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Medicine—History.
History.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • The Profession and Professionalism
  • Being a Physician
  • The Art and Science of Doctoring
  • Health, Disease, Illness, and Death
  • Disease Detection and Diagnosis
  • Therapy and Healing
  • Learning and Teaching Medicine
  • Medical Experience, Knowledge, and Wisdom
  • Errors, Uncertainty, and Ethical Issues
  • Current Issues and Future Practice.

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