Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers Hardcover – October 8, 2008
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland | Language: English | ISBN: 1579127789 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers – October 8, 2008
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- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (October 8, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1579127789
- ISBN-13: 978-1579127787
- Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 8.9 x 10.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #443,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Sherwin Nuland's writings like How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, How We Live, The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body and particularly, Doctors: The Biography of Medicine have set a very high standard for medical non-fiction and paticularly for popular books on the history of medicine. This new book does not bring much new information forward that cannot be found in "Doctors" but the lavish illustrations are very nice and include many that I've never seen before.
The book chronologically presents the great personalities, geniuses, egos, and spectacularly disfunctional people who have brought us Western medicine. Dr. Nuland is definitely a champion of viewing medical history as a history of progressing from ignorance to enlightenment but he is very cognizant to put each medical discovery in the context of its time and not to judge by modern standards of scientific accuracy. Rather, he traces how the use of experiment and observation have been key to the development of effective healing throughout the ages.
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