The illustrated history of medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat14638
Jean-Charles Sournia ; [translation from the French by Lousie Davies, Graham Cross and Lilian Hall].
--London:
Harold Starke
, 1992.
- Call Number
- WZ17 S725H 1992
- Location
- Aberdeen Hospital
- Call Number
- WZ17 S725H 1992
- Author
- Sournia, Jean-Charles
- Responsibility
- Jean-Charles Sournia ; [translation from the French by Lousie Davies, Graham Cross and Lilian Hall]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Harold Starke
- Date of Publication
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 585 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm.
- ISBN
- 1872457053
- Other Subjects
- Medicine -- History
- Physicians -- History
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Aberdeen Hospital
On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants : What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat38944
Robert B. Taylor.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2015.
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- Location
- Online
Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine's "giants"--such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross--are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century. Which physician was the inspiration for the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, and what did he identify as the real…
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- View e-Book
- Author
- Taylor, Robert B
- Responsibility
- Robert B. Taylor
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 251 p. : 100 illus., 48 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781493913350
- 9781493913343 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ethics, Medical
- History of Medicine
- Philosophy, Medical - history
- Physicians - history
- Abstract
- Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine's "giants"--such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross--are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century. Which physician was the inspiration for the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, and what did he identify as the real essential factor in all successful medical diagnoses? What did Sigmund Freud describe as his "tyrant" and what might this mean for doctors today? Do you know the attributed source of the well-known aphorism about horses and zebras, and what we believe this physician actually said? This book answers these questions and more, while also providing fascinating tales about each individual quoted. On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants is recommended for practicing physicians, students, and residents, as well as nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and anyone involved in patient care who wants to understand the historical and epistemological foundations of what we do each day in practice. Robert B. Taylor, MD is the author and editor of more than 30 medical books and several hundred published articles, as well as a veteran of rural private practice and chairmanship of a major medical school department.
- Contents
- The Profession and Professionalism -- Being a Physician -- The Art and Science of Doctoring -- Health, Disease, Illness, and Death -- Disease Detection and Diagnosis -- Therapy and Healing -- Learning and Teaching Medicine -- Medical Experience, Knowledge, and Wisdom -- Errors, Uncertainty, and Ethical Issues -- Current Issues and Future Practice.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Surgical Endocrinopathies : Clinical Management and the Founding Figures
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Janice L. Pasieka, James A. Lee, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2015.
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- Location
- Online
This book covers the clinical management including diagnosis, localization and physiology, for a number of clinical diseases treated by endocrinologists and surgeons. Following each chapter there is a 3-4 page biographical sketch of the person behind the clinical endocrinopathy, whose name is closely associated with the disease. The field of endocrine surgery is rich in history and this is the first text to bring together in one place the person behind the disease and the pioneers of the field.…
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- Other Authors
- Pasieka, Janice L
- Lee, James A
- Responsibility
- Janice L. Pasieka, James A. Lee, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 405 p. : 163 illus., 76 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319136622
- 9783319136615 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Endocrine Surgical Procedures
- Endocrine Surgical Procedures - history
- Endocrine System Diseases
- Physicians - history
- Research Personnel - history
- Abstract
- This book covers the clinical management including diagnosis, localization and physiology, for a number of clinical diseases treated by endocrinologists and surgeons. Following each chapter there is a 3-4 page biographical sketch of the person behind the clinical endocrinopathy, whose name is closely associated with the disease. The field of endocrine surgery is rich in history and this is the first text to bring together in one place the person behind the disease and the pioneers of the field. The text covers both the current management of endocrine surgical diseases, and also provides a historical background by highlighting the person for whom these discoveries were named. Surgical Endocrinopathies is of great value to endocrine surgeons, ENT surgeons, endocrinologists, internal medicine physicians, and medical historians.
- Contents
- Thyroid Physiology -- Emil Theodor Kocher -- Karl von Basedow -- Jan Wolff and Israel L. Chaikoff -- Hyperthyroidism and Thyroiditis -- Robert James Graves -- Henry Stanley Plummer -- Hakaru Hashimoto -- Fritz de Quervain -- George W. Crile -- Multinodular Goiter -- Hugh Spear Pemberton -- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma -- John Richard Farndon -- Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Papillary, Follicular, and Oncocytic (Hürthle) Cell Cancer -- Karl Hürthle -- Update of the Treatment Guidelines for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer -- Frank Lahey -- Thomas Dunhill -- Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Diagnosis and Workup -- Sir Richard Owen -- Fuller Albright -- James Bertram Collip -- Surgical Management of Hyperparathyroidism -- Felix Mandl -- Oliver Cope -- Parathyroidectomy: Post-Operative Considerations/Complications -- FrantiĊĦek Chvostek -- Armand Trousseau -- Theodor Billroth -- Adrenal Physiology -- Thomas Addison -- Primary Aldosteronism -- Jerome W. Conn -- Cushing's Syndrome -- Harvey Cushing -- J. Aidan Carney -- Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma -- Charles Horace Mayo -- Arthur M. Shipley -- Emil Zuckerkandl -- Insulinomas -- Sir Fredrick Grant Banting -- Charles Herbert Best -- Allen Oldfather Whipple -- William J. Mayo -- Gastrinoma -- Robert Milton Zollinger -- Edwin H. Ellison -- VIPoma -- John V. Verner Jr. and Ashton B. Morrison -- Glucagonoma -- Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors -- Carcinoid Syndrome -- Sigfried Oberndorfer -- von Hippel-Lindau Disease -- Eugen von Hippel and Arvid Lindau -- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 -- Paul Wermer -- Norman W. Thompson -- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2 Syndromes -- John H. Sipple.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
