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Doctors : the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography

By Sherwin B , Galen.; Halsted , William; Harvey , William; Hippocrates.; Hunter , John; Laennec , René Théophile Hyacinthe; Lister , Joseph; Morgagni , Giambattista; Morton , William Thomas Green; Taussig , Helen Brooke; Vesalius , Andreas; Virchow , Rudolf; Hunter , John; Halsted , William; Laennec , René Théophile Hyacinthe; Hippocrates.; Harvey , William; Virchow , Rudolf; Lister , Joseph; Galen.; Taussig , Andreas; Morton , William Thomas Green; Morgagni , Giambattista; Nuland

Book information

Publisher
Teaching Company
Year
2005
ISBN
9781598030310, 1598030310
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
792 kB (810529 bytes)
Series
Great courses (DVD)
Pages
232\83
Time added
2020-02-15 03:31:01
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Description

Content: 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 -- 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.

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