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William Osler: A Life in Medicine (Hardcover)

by Michael Bliss (Author) "William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849 ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 632 pages
Publisher: OUP USA (11 Nov 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0195123468
ISBN-13: 978-0195123463
Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 17.2 x 4.8 cm

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"" . . . a brilliant and . . . balanced account of Osler's extraordinary life . . . It will be an undoubted classic for many years to come.""

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" . . . a brilliant and . . . balanced account of Osler's extraordinary life . . . It will be an undoubted classic for many years to come." (The Royal Society Notes and Records )

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5.0 out of 5 stars  AT THE HEART OF MEDICINE, 6 April 2000

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One of the most engaging and delightful biographies I have ever read - and whose subject is an absolutely fascinating human being. The interest is everywhere and of every kind: characterological, institutional, international, scientific, medical, historical, social, philosophical, economic, pedagogic, literary, ethical, humorous, tragic, heroic, inspirational.

The effect of the book is uplifting, challenging, instructive, buoying, rivetting. It is almost impossible to put it down, and when one does one's mood is deep, absent reflection.

There is a profound lesson in "William Osler: A Life in Medicine" for our own era and its bizarre and pitiful oblivion of all that really lies at the heart of medicine: suffering, character, judgment, courage, conscience, compassion, ignorance, and you and I.

NOT process control, impersonal abstraction, colossalism, profiteering, niggardliness, or cosmetic morality.

- Patrick Gunkel

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