On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants: What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom

by Robert B. Taylor

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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 K?bler-Ross--are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century.

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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1493913344

ISBN13:9781493913343

Release Date:November 2014

Publisher:Springer

Length:251 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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