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the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography

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Doctors
Sherwin B. Nuland
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An edition of Doctors (2005)

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the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography

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Twelve lectures (30 min. each) that discuss the history of the development of Western scientific medicine, set against character studies of twelve of the greatest physicians since classical times.

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Publisher
Teaching Co.
Language
English
Pages
180

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Subjects
Medicine, Biography, History
People
W. T. G. Morton (1819-1868), Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), William Halsted (1852-1922), John Hunter (1728-1793), R. T. H. Laennec (1781-1826), William Harvey (1578-1657), Galen, Hippocrates, Helen B. Taussig (1898-1986), Joseph Lister Baron (1827-1912), Giambattista Morgagni (1682-1771), Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)

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Doctors: the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography
2005, Teaching Co.
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Table of Contents

disc 1. 1. Hippocrates and the origins of Western medicine ; 2.The paradox of Galen ; 3. Vesalius and the Renaissance of medicine ; 4. Harvey, discoverer of the circulation ; 5. Morgagni and the anatomy of disease ; 6. Hunter, the surgeon as scientist
disc 2. 7. Laennec and the invention of the stethoscope ; 8. Morton and the origins of anesthesia ; 9. Virchow and the cellular origins of disease ; 10. Lister and the germ theory ; 11. Halsted and the American medical education ; 12. Taussig and the development of cardiac surgery.

Edition Notes

Restricted to home use or face to face teaching.

Instructor: Sherman B. Nuland.

DVD.

Published in
Chantilly, VA
Series
The great courses

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
610.922

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Format
[videorecording] :
Pagination
2 videodiscs (180 min. each)
Number of pages
180

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26889727M
ISBN 10
1598030302
OCLC/WorldCat
61233044

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