White Coat Tales Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures

White Coat Tales Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures / by Robert B. Taylor.

This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened...

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Main Author: Taylor, Robert B. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:2nd ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Medicine—History.
General practice (Medicine).
Health promotion.
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:
  • Part One: Heroes, Diseases and Remedies
  • Heroes in Medical History
  • Diseases that Shaped History
  • Drugs and Other Remedies
  • Part Two: 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
  • Part Three: Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures
  • Famous Persons as Patients
  • Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship and Speculation
  • Medical Myths, Misinformation, Blunders and Wrongdoing
  • Now and Future Practice.

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