White Coat Tales
Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Authors: Taylor, Robert B
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- Includes current medical trends and examples that link the historical accounts to contemporary practice
- Features historical illustrations depicting many of the people and events described in the book
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- About this book
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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 the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to many new tales, this revised edition contains 128 illustrations, such as images of Baron von Münchhausen aloft with cannonballs and Vincent van Gogh’s portrait of his doctor showing a clue to the painter’s health. Read about legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, illnesses of famous persons, and some epic blunders of physicians and scientists. The author is Robert B. Taylor, MD, Emeritus Professor, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, and Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Taylor is the author and editor of more than 33 medical books.
To see Dr. Taylor lecture on the history of medicine, go here: https://youtu.be/Zx4yaUyaPRA
- About the authors
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Robert B. Taylor, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
School of Medicine
Portland, OR
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Heroes in Medical History
Pages 3-39
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Diseases That Changed History
Pages 41-66
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Drugs and Other Remedies
Pages 67-84
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Medical Words and Phrases
Pages 87-110
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Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponyms
Pages 111-129
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- White Coat Tales
- Book Subtitle
- Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
- Authors
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- Robert B Taylor
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-29055-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-29055-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-29053-9
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XXIX, 328
- Number of Illustrations
- 38 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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